stuck with the default “My Documents”

Normally, you can change your My Documents folder from it’s Properties ( visible with a right-click). A window pops out, and the third tab lets you change your default My Documents folder.

But sometimes this doesn’t work for many reasons, but the following work nicely on Vista ( or XP with a different folder name).

From Start Menu, type “regedit” in the research and open Registry Editor(regedit.exe).

In Registry Editor, find the following folder : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\

Edit “Personal” to change your old My Documents folder into your new My Documents folder.

1 Response to “stuck with the default “My Documents””


  1. 1 GarykPatton

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    edited by Admin : Well, I don’t receive many comments, generally spam, but this spam was very funny, so, I’m removing this comment’s links but keeping the content.

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