My documents, pics, music, and vids..

[AGlobalThreatsK]

When I open Documents on the start menu, it points to My Documents. I already changed the default from the public documents to My Documents, and removed the public documents from the menu so My Documents is the only thing I see.

What I want to do though is have Documents on the start menu go directly into the My Documents folder, instead of having to point to
Start > Documents > My Documents > files located here.

I want it to simply be Start > Documents > files located here, just like how all the previous versions of Windows were.

I thought it was kind of cool at first how you could access both the public and your own documents, but after I found out I could remove the public displays from the menu I definitely would prefer it to go directly into the My Documents folder. Same goes for Music, Pictures, and Videos.

Anyone know how?

 

[limneos]

hello globalthreat....

Start - > Documents does indeed point to c:\users\documents, which is the new way of sorting documents , music, pictures etc of M$.

In other words, the documents folder is "My documents" folder. My documents is now just an alias, to support earlier versions shorcuts.

You don't have to create a folder "My documents" inside Documents, cause "Documents" is "My Documents" now.

 

[SIW2]

Hi globalthreat,

I suspect you mean you want to go directly to here




You could create a shortcut to C:\users\username\Documents

and have it in the quick launch, or add it to Favorites Menu on the right pane of the Start Menu. Do you not see that folder when you click "Documents " on the Start Menu.

SIW2

 

[AGlobalThreatsK]

This is what I have now:

This is what I want:

I don't want to have to go into Documents then My Documents. I want Documents to go straight INTO my documents. Very simple and stupid I know, but I'm picky.

 

[AGlobalThreatsK]

Bump, these double menus are really annoying. There has to be some way to do this.

 

[Mark]

I don't think you can as there is a good reason for showing it that way, if you look at this screen shot you will see that if you have added other locations to the documents library they are also displayed as links and if you had it your way those extra folder could not be shown, make sense?

 

[AGlobalThreatsK]

Yea I know WHY they changed it but I want the old style back. I don't want multiple documents folders, I want to point to Documents and have all my files show up. Instead of Documents going into the Documents Library, I want it to go into My Documents and simply display the files like in vista/xp

 

[SIW2]

Hi ,

I also find it completely useless. If I come across a way of bypassing it, I'll let you know.

In fact there is a kind of workround.

Keep all your docs and data etc. on a separate partition in folders you have created there. Create a shortcut to the other partition, or the folders you want to access on there regularly. Just bypass the default folder structure on The C drive completely.

SIW2

 

[Mark]

Do you think this might be a good place to look, maybe if you have look there in your Vista Registry you might have the registry value that you can add here.

 

[baarod]

Do you think this might be a good place to look, maybe if you have look there in your Vista Registry you might have the registry value that you can add here.

View attachment 4255

That's just to hide the My Documents item from the Start Menu. Goto
%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Libraries delete the documents library and create a new folder with that name. Now open the libraries view in explorer -- I can show you how if you don't know -- and delete it. The folder wil show up underneath. Use an NTFS symlink (junction) to mount you real docs folder there.

 

[pbcopter]

Right click on the start orb and select properties. Then Customize, then in the list under "documents" check "Display as link". For others that you want to go directly, do the same thing, e.g Computer.

 

[AGlobalThreatsK]

That's just to hide the My Documents item from the Start Menu. Goto
%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Libraries delete the documents library and create a new folder with that name. Now open the libraries view in explorer -- I can show you how if you don't know -- and delete it. The folder wil show up underneath. Use an NTFS symlink (junction) to mount you real docs folder there.

Whats an NTFS symlink (junction) ?

 

[baarod]

Whats an NTFS symlink (junction) ?

NTFS junction point - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Use mklink command line utility to create.

Caution though -- my instructions have created a library that seems to work most of the time -- until I rebooted. I'm still looking at it.

 

[AGlobalThreatsK]

Bump

Anybody found a workaround for this yet? I like how in XP and Vista I can just point to Documents and it shows my files. I don't like pointing to Documents and then have it show My Documents, and then I have to point to My Documents to see my files.

I understand the point of the libraries but I want the pre-library menus back

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

I changed the Target so the explorer Taskbar icon goes direct to My Documents.



Select Properties and paste this in as the Target, Apply, Ok.

explorer.exe shell:::{26EE0668-A00A-44D7-9371-BEB064C986833}





Or you could rt click desktop, select new shortcut and paste it in there.

Hope it helps.

 

[AGlobalThreatsK]

I'm talking about the Start Menu, not the taskbar. I want the old menu styles for Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos.

What you're suggesting would mean I'd have to have 4 different explorers pinned to the taskbar.

Thanks for the input though, any and all help is appreciated.

 

[t41]

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/5736-start-menu-enable-folder-library-pin-start-menu.html

I must be wrong at what you are looking to do, but I believe this is the work around. pin it to start menu. I am sure you actually want it on the right side. There should be a browse option to add folders of our choosing to that side built into the start menu customize window, but there's not.

Try this - create a new library with just that folder in it or place all your files in the new library directly - How to Create A New Library In Windows 7 » My Digital Life

when you create the library - you have to click properties to add folder to library. But when you're done i'm sure you can open the folder inside the library and drag all the file into the library itself - just label the library my documents like you wanted to in the first place.Just wont be in right pane, so you may as well just drag your my docs folder into the left start menu pane. this whole idea is a waste of time, can just paste the folder itself instead - i just did it- i thought the new library would show on right pane - no luck wtf
Short of renaming one of the libraries you do not use - i see no way of doing this.

Trying to help out - good luck

 

[AGlobalThreatsK]

Still not what I'm looking for

Thanks for the help tho

 

[johngalt]

If you make it a link instead of a menu it loads the document library on click - which, in your case, only contains the single Documents folder, so it is automatically opened.

Other than that, ***you're stuck***

 

[AGlobalThreatsK]

Yea I just dont like having to open anything. I like just using the expandable menus on the start menu