Destroy "My Pictures" forever?

[Eproxus]

Is there any way to prevent folders of type "My [Insert bull**** here]" to be created?

I hate them.

Thanks in advance.

 

[grimman]

Use geoshell and you won't even notice them. ;>

 

[Eproxus]

Pardon me, but I mean in the "My Documents" folder...

 

[Un4gIvEn1]

If you delete them from the C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\My Documents folder then they will not appear on any new profiles.

 

[Eproxus]

Thanks, although "My Ebooks" still appear.

 

[Un4gIvEn1]

You will have to delete it manually from any current profiles... You may also look in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users for some things.

 

[Eproxus]

There wasn't any "My Ebooks" folder in any profile.

 

[dubstar]

i was interested in this too, but when i installed Win XP Home on my new hard-drive, it didnt show up. I did all the updating, and its just not there.

I wish i could tell you what I did, but Im not sure. sorry, im useless.

 

[Petros]

Save this in notepad as a .reg file and merge it into your registry, delete "My Documents" from your profile and restart.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
"My Pictures"=hex(2):00,00
"Personal"=hex(2):00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache]
"@C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\SHELL32.dll,-9227"="My Documents"

If you have a program that saves ANYTHING to the "My Documents" folder or subfolders by default (e.g. Nero, MSN) it might re-create it.

 

[Petros]

BTW if you click "Delete" on it, you don't even have to delete it and it won't show up on your desktop anymore; it'll just be a folder you will never see.

 

[Eproxus]

Thanks, how about the "My Ebooks" folder then?

 

[Petros]

Originally posted by Eproxus
Thanks, how about the "My Ebooks" folder then?

I will assume that it's in your "My Documents" folder since I don't have that:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
"My Ebooks"=hex(2):00,00

 

[Eproxus]

What exactly will this do? It won't delete my Documents folder, will it?

 

[Petros]

naw, that's something you have to do. It will just keep Windows from re-creating it. And again, you can just opt to not have it shown on the desktop.

 

[Eproxus]

So if I apply your settings, I can still have the "My Documents" folder (which I use) and no created folders inside?

 

[Petros]

Whoa there...I thought (from your second post) you wanted to eliminate "My Documents" entirely. To erase folders within, you would use this:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
"My Pictures"=hex(2):00,00
"[name of any other folder you want to go away forever]"=hex(2):00,00

You can add more under the registry key, just make sure that it is in this format -- "Name of Folder"=hex(2):00,00

 

[Eproxus]

"in the 'My Documents' folder"

I browsed into the registry and found out how it worked, just delete the path and the folder won't haunt you anymore!

Anyway, thanks for your help!