Any way to delete either "My Pictures" or "Pictures" folder in Win 7?


  1. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit
       #1

    Any way to delete either "My Pictures" or "Pictures" folder in Win 7?


    The frustration has been for more than 2 years now. I tried to move the photo folders & files from "My Pictures" to "Pictures" but Window's geniouses did not give us that option. I do not need to click to "My Pictures" since they are ALL MY pictures. So are we stuck with this decision or is there a way which I can get rid of 1 of the folders? Same with "Documents" & "Videos".
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  2. Posts : 212
    WIN7 x64 Home Premium SP1
       #2

    Try the reverse. Move the files from Pictures into My pictures, and if you can, then delete the Pictures folder. Then rename the My Pictures folder to Pictures.
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  3. Posts : 10,455
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1
       #3

    Hi DennisH and welcome to Seven Forums.

    Pictures and My Pictures are the same folder, one is a junction point to the other(a link in NTFS). The same goes for the Documents and Videos pairs. this is done for backwards compatibility.
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