Pictures or My Picures

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  1. Posts : 62
    Windows 7 Professional
       #1

    Pictures or My Picures


    I think I have this right. Pictures is an example.
    My Vista default folders that was de-personalized from "My Pictures" in XP, .etc, to "Pictures" in Vista is back to "My Pictures" in W7 except if I feel lonesome for the Vista folders I was just getting use to I can go to the Library "Pictures" in which I'll find my old "My Pictures" folder.

    Pete
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  2. Posts : 8,608
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit SP1
       #2

    LOL! who's on first
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  3. Posts : 995
    XP/win7 x86 build 7127
       #3

    cfourkays said:
    I think I have this right. Pictures is an example.
    My Vista default folders that was de-personalized from "My Pictures" in XP, .etc, to "Pictures" in Vista is back to "My Pictures" in W7 except if I feel lonesome for the Vista folders I was just getting use to I can go to the Library "Pictures" in which I'll find my old "My Pictures" folder.

    Pete
    could you translate a little better pls



    while i think the answer to this is probably "add to library" and be done.
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  4. Posts : 4,925
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
       #4

    Heres one way to achieve that:

    Create a folder called Documents in C:\Users\<accountname>
    Open Windows explorer
    Go to C:\Users\<accountname>
    Right click on My Documents and select properties
    Go to the location tab
    Click the Move button and navigate to the Documents folder you created earlier
    Click on ok and then yes and you will now have Documents back.
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  5. Posts : 62
    Windows 7 Professional
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Let me ask this a little better without an attempt at sarcasm:
    In W7, is the default folder for images, pictures, etc., back to "My Pictures" which, Ithink, is in the Library folder "Pictures"?
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  6. Posts : 995
    XP/win7 x86 build 7127
       #6

    cfourkays said:
    Let me ask this a little better without an attempt at sarcasm:
    In W7, is the default folder for images, pictures, etc., back to "My Pictures" which, Ithink, is in the Library folder "Pictures"?
    correct, also in there will be public pictures if not mistaken by default
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  7. Posts : 1,797
    Windows 7 Ulti. x64
       #7

    cfourkays said:
    Let me ask this a little better without an attempt at sarcasm:
    In W7, is the default folder for images, pictures, etc., back to "My Pictures" which, Ithink, is in the Library folder "Pictures"?

    Hello Welcome to SevenForums, cfourkays

    Hope that you have a good stay here on SF.
    A SevenForums tutorial may help you with that try looking here Windows 7 - Tutorial Index
    That will take you to an index of all the tutorials and look for the letter l its on the second page I think and you will find a lot of stuff on this new feature called libraries. lm
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  8. Posts : 4,282
    Windows 7 Ultimate Vista Ultimate x64
       #8

    It's was a strange decision to add the prefix "My" to documents, pictures, music etc. in the earlier build that was not the case, I guess it was so all the XP users didn't bitch so much about loosing it, personally I preferred it the Vista way without having My on it, I mean who else's would it be?
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  9. Posts : 16,149
    7 X64
       #9

    M$ did a lot of research into this, I believe.

    They also changed the wording on on other things e.g. "Let me choose". The idea is to give users the feeling of ownership.

    Seems bizarre to me.

    You could always rename it:

    Pictures or My Picures-documents-2009-05-08_011228.jpg

    Pictures or My Picures-documents-2-2009-05-08_011314.jpg

    Glad we don't have My Computer - that would be nauseating.:)
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  10. Posts : 31,249
    Windows 11 Pro x64 [Latest Release and Release Preview]
       #10

    Hi Si
    Glad we don't have My Computer - that would be nauseating.:)
    Especially true if you spend a lot of time on other peoples computers

    But seriously this research into wording is important - remember the "any" key change to "a" key fiasco in the early days
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