my documents missing in my computer

[Guest frederick]

i have xp pro sp3.

 

the current-user my documents is missing in my computer for all the limited

accounts. they do appear properly for the administrators, however. if i

change the limited accounts to administrator status, then all the users'

documents show up. if i add a new limited account, no my documents appear.

 

i have found several articles discussing this, or something similar, but

they don't seem to help.

 

i have tried:

looking at docfolderpaths

kathy's korner

tweakui (the option to show them doesn't appear when i'm logged on as a

limited account but is there for an administrator)

 

there's another thing to fix, too, but i don't know if it is related or if

it's better in another question. shared documents appears for all the users,

but it is listed as just documents.

 

please help.

 

fred

[Guest st]

Re: my documents missing in my computer

 

"frederick" <frederick@discussions.microsoft.com> сообщил/сообщила в новостях следующее: news:377F51D7-120B-43E4-AA91-40D812158F75@microsoft.com...

>i have xp pro sp3.

>

> the current-user my documents is missing in my computer for all the limited

> accounts. they do appear properly for the administrators, however. if i

> change the limited accounts to administrator status, then all the users'

> documents show up. if i add a new limited account, no my documents appear.

>

> i have found several articles discussing this, or something similar, but

> they don't seem to help.

>

> i have tried:

> looking at docfolderpaths

> kathy's korner

> tweakui (the option to show them doesn't appear when i'm logged on as a

> limited account but is there for an administrator)

>

> there's another thing to fix, too, but i don't know if it is related or if

> it's better in another question. shared documents appears for all the users,

> but it is listed as just documents.

>

I have a similar issue. Seems this is by design that non-admin user accounts cannot see their own and other user's Documents folder in My Computer.

[Guest frederick]

Re: my documents missing in my computer

 

maybe you're right. i could have sworn that i have seen it before, though.

maybe it depends on what version it is?

 

"st" wrote:

> "frederick" <frederick@discussions.microsoft.com> сообщил/сообщила в новостях следующее: news:377F51D7-120B-43E4-AA91-40D812158F75@microsoft.com...

> >i have xp pro sp3.

> >

> > the current-user my documents is missing in my computer for all the limited

> > accounts. they do appear properly for the administrators, however. if i

> > change the limited accounts to administrator status, then all the users'

> > documents show up. if i add a new limited account, no my documents appear.

> >

> > i have found several articles discussing this, or something similar, but

> > they don't seem to help.

> >

> > i have tried:

> > looking at docfolderpaths

> > kathy's korner

> > tweakui (the option to show them doesn't appear when i'm logged on as a

> > limited account but is there for an administrator)

> >

> > there's another thing to fix, too, but i don't know if it is related or if

> > it's better in another question. shared documents appears for all the users,

> > but it is listed as just documents.

> >

> I have a similar issue. Seems this is by design that non-admin user accounts cannot see their own and other user's Documents folder in My Computer

[Guest frederick]

RE: my documents missing in my computer

 

just an update. i was able to get shared documents to work correctly. i

went back through all the things that i'd tried and found that correcting all

my desktop.ini files to the info here

http://computers.douglasthrift.net/winxpfaq/#faq3_shared_documents fixed my

shared documents problem. now my computer shows shared documents rather than

just documents.

 

limited users still do not show their own documents folder in my computer,

however. i wonder why. it seems as if it could be a security problem, but i

have complete access to it. i'm stumped.

 

fred

 

"frederick" wrote:

> i have xp pro sp3.

>

> the current-user my documents is missing in my computer for all the limited

> accounts. they do appear properly for the administrators, however. if i

> change the limited accounts to administrator status, then all the users'

> documents show up. if i add a new limited account, no my documents appear.

>

> i have found several articles discussing this, or something similar, but

> they don't seem to help.

>

> i have tried:

> looking at docfolderpaths

> kathy's korner

> tweakui (the option to show them doesn't appear when i'm logged on as a

> limited account but is there for an administrator)

>

> there's another thing to fix, too, but i don't know if it is related or if

> it's better in another question. shared documents appears for all the users,

> but it is listed as just documents.

>

> please help.

>

> fred