Windows Explorer 7 Favorites

Hello! New to WE 7 and laptops/touchpads, I initially created havoc in WE libraries copying files etc unintentionally. I gradually sorted out the Libraries but find that I do not have the WE Favourites 3 default file folders (Desktop etc.) showing. Favourites will not expand. If I look under my User Account I can see the folders; I cannot seem to copy or move them into WE Favourites! Can any more experienced WE user help me - without having to do a Restore?
Cheers
Windsorian

Huge thanks Maranello And Brink for your suggestions!

I am a real novice so please bear with me here in Edinburgh. When I look in the user folders, Links and Recent Places are absent, presumably deleted by me: this presumably is my main problem. Contacts absent too. Therefore I cannot check the default locations. Do the Favorites' default files usually have a location of Users/User Name/Links/xxxx?

How do I restore/recreate these missing files? Is it by running the REG File Download or manual fix listed in the (Brink)tutorial - or do these procs need files to pre-exist?

Thanks in advance
Windsorian

Brink - thanks again!
I have followed the tutorial and noted a message saying that the registry locations have been successfully updated. However, when I entered shell:Contacts into the "search programs & files" and clicked on the file returned, it did not open anything I could see. Having restarted several times I cannot see any new Contacts user folder. Still keen to recreate my missing user folders: any ideas?
Cheers
Brendan

Brink - good morning from Scotland! (I had a Texas holiday in 2005 - thoroughly enjoyed it, particularly Big Bend.)

I have checked the Registry location you cited in your reply yesterday. The path for the string value is indeed C:\Users\User-Name (Brendan)\Contacts.

Does this mean the update definitely worked? If so, then how do I get the folder to show in the user folders? I feel so close but yet....

By the way, I did sort out the Favourites issues. Just missing proper My Music, My Pictures user folders, i.e. ones with a locations tab, and a couple of others like Contacts.

Looking forward to your thoughts...
Cheers
Brendan

Shawn/Brink

Thanks for the extra advice on backing up content and deleting the "false" user folders before using the tutorial option two. Will do!

But back to my last reply: having corrected the default file location for Contacts using the tutorial and restarted several times, why can't I see a "new" Contacts folder in my user folders?

Cheers
Brendan