Restore My Videos folder to user account

OK I have lost 'My Videos' folder from within my user profile and I want to restore it.

I have searched and search and found ways to do many other things related to the user folders but none show how to get it back after its deleted.

Win 7 Home Premium x64

I lost it when I swapped in a new hdd and had to move where all my videos were. I had previously altered the location property to where they were stored. But when the new drive was added and the old one removed ... there was a drive change and the My Video link became white and had no editable properties.

So I guess i did this
1. Moved the location of My Video folder to Drive: F/Videos
2. Removed the Hdd with F:/My Videos
3. Added HDD with G:/My Videos
4. Now in my user folders i have no 'My Videos' folder

Is there a way to create a new folder in the user account ... and get it to have a location tab??

The very easiest would be to create a folder wherever you like and include it into the library (which I assume is still there).

Yes .. there are workarounds but i really want the folder back in my user account ... ie so when i click my name in the start menu .. the My Videos folder appears there

Welcome to the Forum,

You might want to see if this tutorial helps you with that,

User Folders - Restore Default Location

Fleishman said:

Yes .. there are workarounds but i really want the folder back in my user account ... ie so when i click my name in the start menu .. the My Videos folder appears there

When you click on Videos, your videos library with all it's folders will appear. So I do not see a problem there. But you can also try the link that derekimo has posted. That should do too - if you are lucky.

Thanks for the replies. Sorted it now.

Had used that link already Derekimo .... but tried again ... I manually went into regedit and set it to where i wanted it the video folder to be ...
Then Created a normal folder in c:\users\my account\ called Videos
Restarted pc - merged the registry restore file from the link in here https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...-location.html
Restarted pc again ... tada! ... My videos folder was back in my account. Was then able to edit the location as normal - thru the location tab in properties.

Glad you got it sorted out and back the way you wanted.

Fleishman, congratulations. I understand that you like things to be tidy and since you seem to be skillful, that is one way to go. I am more the pragmatic type who will go for the easiest solution. And since I reinstall my systems every 6 months (from an early image - not from the recovery partition or disk), things will come back to normal then. I guess everybody has their own preferences.