Vista - Location of 'Documents & Settings' folder

Help! I cannot seem to find the 'Documents & Settings' folder in my new
VISTA PC. I have tried searching for it, but to no avail.

Where could it be hiding and for that matter why does a search for
normal.dot OR normal*.dot reveal nothing? I do have Office 2007 loaded on
this PC.

Look for the "Users" folder instead - this is the new location of the
profile, All User and Default User folders.

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"Ignoramus" <laguna275@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Microsoft changed the location of several of these common folders.
the documents and settings folder technically is still there, but is
configured as an ntfs junction (essentially a file system redirect)
the user profile settings are under C:\users

the template you are looking for should be under
C:\users\%username%\appdata\roaming\microsoft\templates\normal.dotm
your search probably revealed nothing if you searched for *.dot since office
2007 file extensions have changed also


"Ignoramus" <laguna275@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I did look in the Users Folder - both in Public as well as >myname< - but I
cannot find the usual 'Application Data' or Templates directory after that.

Any further clues?



"Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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There's no "Documents" menu choice after you click start? In the right-hand
pane near the top?



"Ignoramus" <laguna275@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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C:\Users\youraccount\AppData
it's hidden by default.


"Ignoramus" <laguna275@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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It is now just called Documents and is in your User folder
Where are you looking for your dot

"Ignoramus" <laguna275@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, there is - but it only contains a folder called 'My Google Gadgets'
which is some crapola that the PC manufacturer loaded to earn a few
Googlebucks. The documents folder you refer to seems to be only there for
documents that I create and not for system docs that were contained in the
'old' Documents and Settings folder in previous incarnations of Windows


"DP" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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YEAH! I was having the same problem as you. After (literally) 1-1/2 hours
and tears since I work at home and needed templates before I could start, I
FINALLY found them.

<my name>/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Templates

I have no idea where they got "roaming!" Everytime I even tried to search
for Templates, it would say, "access denied." I had just about given
up--just as I was thinking Vista wasn't so bad.

Oh, well. I hope this helped.

"Ignoramus" wrote: