Disable My Music & My Pictures from My Documents

[Marthax]

Hi Everyone!

How do I disable My Music & My Pictures from My Documents? If I delete these folders, Windows just keeps recreating them so there's gotta be a way to make it stop doing this. How?

Thanks in advance!

Marthax

[TheeBeets]

Cleanup.cmd

ECHO Cleaning My Documents folder

RD /S/Q "%UserProfile%\My Documents\My Music\"

RD /S/Q "%UserProfile%\My Documents\My Pictures\"

[Marthax]

If I delete these folders, Windows just keeps recreating them so there's gotta be a way to make it stop doing this

I just said that this doesn't help. I need something to disable these folders from poping up as soon as I play a song or view a picture. These annoying folders keep poping up if I delete them.

[Gouki]

Even if u choose:

%userprofile% & %allusersprofile% ??

[Marthax]

Haven't tried that one. Thanks, I'm gonna go ahead and take a look. I'll notify you about how it goes.

[Gouki]

Ok. Ill be waiting ... I doubt it works tho. I think those files have some entries on a .dll file who is responsible for creating them again!

[Gouki]

Yep. I had posted this on my own forum. Just didnt remember.

Go to Start > Run and type:

regsvr32 /u mydocs.dll

That should do it. About doing it UA, dont know if its possible.

[spiritpyre]

This won't really get rid of them but it might work:

you could try "re-assigning" them to an already existing folder that's out of the way (kind of assuming you just don't want them in My Documents)...

REGEDIT4

;================================
; Change location of Special Folders:
;================================

; NOTE EACH FOLDER HAS **2** VALUES


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\Shell Folders]
;;"My Music"={insert text string of path}

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\User Shell Folders]
;;"My Music"={export hex string of path}

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\Shell Folders]
;;"My Pictures"={insert text string of path}

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\User Shell Folders]
;;"My Pictures"={export hex string of path}

from there you could delete the folder from My Documents w/ the batch file suggested above or....

...I just noticed that under "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]" there is another key called "New"... its possibile that this key might create 'new' instances when deleted (but I'd back it up b4 testing if I were you...) hope that helps, & good luck B) Mine's far from empty otherwise I might test it myself.

btw love the bds avatar

Edited June 21, 2005 by spiritpyre

[Gouki]

i just posted the solution!!

just delete the folders and then run that!!

Edited June 21, 2005 by Gouki

[spiritpyre]

@ Gouki

just suggesting another {possible} way (.reg's and batch files work fine on uA)

btw this:

regsvr32 /u mydocs.dll

That should do it. About doing it UA, dont know if its possible.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

should also work fine from a batch file during uA so long as it doesn't prompt the user or popup w/ a message box like "OK"

Edited June 21, 2005 by spiritpyre

[Yzöwl]

i just posted the solution!! 

just delete the folders and then run that!!

Does that not unregister the My Documents folder too?

He only wanted My Music and My Pictures!

[eirogge]

use

regsvr32 /s /u mydocs.dll

in a unattended batch file

Edited June 21, 2005 by eirogge

[Marthax]

Ok, I'm gonna try that. Thanks a lot everyone for trying to help me out I appreciate it.

My testing computer is not usable right now but it will in a few days so I'll post as soon as I'll be able to try it out. Thanks again

@spiritpyre: I love it too B) Your avatar isn't that bad it either. An highly exceptional cat.

Edited June 21, 2005 by Marthax

[Gouki]

i just posted the solution!! 

just delete the folders and then run that!!

Does that not unregister the My Documents folder too?

He only wanted My Music and My Pictures!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

yep. It will only unregister the 2 folders inside my documents!

use

regsvr32 /s /u mydocs.dll

in a unattended batch file

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Great! Thanks!!

[Gouki]

In case some one is interested, I just tested this on my batch file and it worked.

RD /S /Q "%userprofile%\My Documents\My Music"
RD /S /Q "%allusersprofile%\My Documents\My Music"
RD /S /Q "%userprofile%\My Documents\My Pictures"
RD /S /Q "%allusersprofile%\My Documents\My Pictures"

regsvr32 /S /u mydocs.dll

Just paste this on ur cleanup.cmd!

Edited June 21, 2005 by Gouki