Remove Shared Documents but keep individual ones ?

[midiboy]

Hi guys !

I have been looking for a solution to this but couldn´t find one. Is there a way to remove the "Shared Documents" folder from "My Computer" but keep showing the individual "Personal" folders there ?

I found many sources for removing the Shared Documents folder like this one for instance:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoSharedDocuments"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoSharedDocuments"=dword:00000001
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\DelegateFolders\{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}]

but it removes the whole section with all folders not only the Shared Documents folder.

As an alternative, would there be a way to change the destination of the "Shared Documents" folder to some other place but keep the %ALLUSERSPROFILE" where it is ? (similar to having a user profile in "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%" and the "%PERSONAL%" folder on "D:\%USERNAME%" for instance )

Any ideas ?

Thanks,

Alex

[Astalavista]

i saw it in the regtweaks in the sticky look for it.

[prathapml]

Yes Alex, you could use TweakUI to manually do that. download link

If you want to automate that, use regshot to record the changes.

If you need more info, just ask!

[midiboy]

Hi !

Thanks for trying to help !

@Astalavista: I altready looked for that feature in the regtweaks document in the sticky thread. I came up with the code I posted in the first post but as I said, it removes all the documents folders, not just the Shared folders.

@prathapml: It does not work with TweakUI. I created a new folder on D: and call it Shared. I create three subfolders named Music, Videos and Pictures inside. Then I change each Shared Folder ( Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos ) in TweakUI to the newely created folders clicking "apply" after each change. After opening TweakUI again, the changes are removed and the old path is there again. Somehow Windows won´t let me change the path for the shared folders ...

Bye,

Alex

[prathapml]

You need to restart windows to see the changes.

[midiboy]

Hey !

No, I did that of course. More than once. The changed path is not remembered, no matter what I do. Windows sets it back to C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Documents

Bye,

Alex

[midiboy]

no ideas ?