Jeremy Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 There is an odd folder all by its lonesome self in Windows Explorer. It has no subfolders and is empty and also cannot be deleted. Anyone know where this thing came from and how I can get rid of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCT Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 try doing it by batch file?taskkill.exe /f /im explorer.exedel /S /Q "path to file"explorer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 11, 2004 Author Share Posted December 11, 2004 I discovered that it is a duplicate folder leading to the same directory "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\" which says that it cannot be deleted due to being a system folder. Pffft... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCT Posted December 11, 2004 Share Posted December 11, 2004 use something like bartpe & delete it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 12, 2004 Author Share Posted December 12, 2004 BartPE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted December 12, 2004 Share Posted December 12, 2004 read-up about BartPE, and download from here. But that may not be what you need.Jeremy, I think you are seeing the shared documents there. Apply these regtweaks to get rid of it.; Remove Shared Documents in My Computer view[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]"NoSharedDocuments"=dword:00000001;Remove Shared Documents from My Computer;[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\DelegateFolders\{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 12, 2004 Author Share Posted December 12, 2004 Thanks, I used the second tweak and the folder is gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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