Windows 7: Differences Between Users Documents and Start Menu Docs

After several months of using the RC I decided to investigate the Libraries. I am confused. What is the difference between the Documents on the Start Menu and C:\users\me\My Documents. The former shows nothing and the latter shows Add-in Express and My Stationery plus some what looks like recently used files. Also if I open my user name at the top of the Start Menu it shows such things as My Music, My Pictures, Saved Games, AppData, etc.

Would someone please try to explain how these three things fit together and how they work with a Library.

Thank you very much.

You might find what you are looking for in the tutorial section,

Libraries - Personal and Public User Folders

Opening Documents from start menu opens the Documents Library, which as default contains two locations: default users documents at C:\Users\Your_Username\Documents and public documents at C:\Users\Public\Documents.

C:\Users\Your_Username\My Documents refers to the default users Document folder, i.e. it is the same than C:\Users\Your_Username\Documents.

Kari

Thank you very much, Kari. That does fit with what is on my laptop. Now I just have to figure out how to use that info effectivelyl

Thanks again.

That didn't directly help but it sure provided a lot of other useful information. Particularly the part about display as a menu as opposed to as a link.

Thank you very much.