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Ok I screwed up

I moved "my pictures" to a networked drive to save disk space on my laptop.

Now I can no longer access that drive. So when I try to install new software

i get an error msg that says "can't access\\drive\c\miks stuff\my pictures"

I have created a new My pix.. folder in my profile under my docs.. I have

run the comand line "rundll32 mydocs.dll,PerUserInit" witch seemed to

reinstall the desktop.ini for the folder. But I can't seem to change the

networked path setting for this folder.

Help Anyone??

Thanks in advance

Mike


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What's the value for the path of My Pictures under this key?



HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell

Folders



An admin account should be able to change the value (back) to:



C:\Documents and Settings\<Your UserName>\My Documents\My Pictures



(or wherever you want it).



"Mike Reed" wrote:

Script

your over my head can you take it one step at a time

Thanks



"Script" wrote:

Hi Mike,



You may have to fix the shell folder path in the registry manually. See:



http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm



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Regards,



Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]

Windows=C2=AE Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com





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I moved "my pictures" to a networked drive to save disk space on my =

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Now I can no longer access that drive. So when I try to install new =

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i get an error msg that says "can't access\\drive\c\miks stuff\my =

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I have created a new My pix.. folder in my profile under my docs.. I =

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run the comand line "rundll32 mydocs.dll,PerUserInit" witch seemed to=20

reinstall the desktop.ini for the folder. But I can't seem to change the =



networked path setting for this folder.

Help Anyone??

Thanks in advance

Mike

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