My Documents missing from My Computer - SP3 Issue?

[Guest MarvinLittlewood]

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]

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