Guest MarvinLittlewood Posted June 19, 2008 Posted June 19, 2008 Hi! This is a new twist on an old problem - there are related posts from 2004 & 2005 but having tried all the suggestions with no luck, I am posting this. I have WinXP Pro SP3 installed, with an admin user © and a limited user (M) in addition to the usual Administrator account. C can see all the other users' documents under the heading: "Files Stored on this Computer". M can only see "Shared Documents". M's side bar shows "My Documents" and links correctly to the desired target folder. For M, using RegEdit to look at the registry: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DocFolderPaths has the correct entry. Also: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\DelegateFolders has the correct key {59031a47-...} to show "Files Stored on This Computer". I have tried re-directing M's "My Documents" to a new target to no avail. I also created a new limited user: P, for which the problem is also present. Does anyone know of a fix? Or does XP SP3 deliberately do this for limited users? Many thanks in advance for any help. Mark
Guest MarvinLittlewood Posted June 19, 2008 Posted June 19, 2008 RE: My Documents missing from My Computer - SP3 Issue? Thanks for your patience... I think I have a solution based on what I found on another XP machine. The behaviour described below appears to be normal for limited users whether XP Pro SP3 or SP2. I had thought this was abnormal behaviour until I realised that my reference machine enumerated the "My Documents" links because: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\<user id>\ProfileImagePath had been changed. This unsupported hack by-passes the 'normal' behaviour. "MarvinLittlewood" wrote: > Hi! This is a new twist on an old problem - there are related posts from 2004 > & 2005 but having tried all the suggestions with no luck, I am posting this. > > I have WinXP Pro SP3 installed, with an admin user © and a limited user > (M) in addition to the usual Administrator account. > > C can see all the other users' documents under the heading: "Files Stored on > this Computer". M can only see "Shared Documents". M's side bar shows "My > Documents" and links correctly to the desired target folder. > > For M, using RegEdit to look at the registry: > HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DocFolderPaths has > the correct entry. Also: > HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\DelegateFolders > has the correct key {59031a47-...} to show "Files Stored on This Computer". > > I have tried re-directing M's "My Documents" to a new target to no avail. > I also created a new limited user: P, for which the problem is also present. > > Does anyone know of a fix? Or does XP SP3 deliberately do this for limited > users? > > Many thanks in advance for any help. > Mark
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