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So I'm on the very long digital organization project, scanning documents, photos etc. We I've been looking up articles on how to organize and name folders when you have all kinds of types of files. I found a couple good articles. How To Declutter & Organize Your Digital Files...

All my data is on my D drive. I want to make that the drive that opens when I go to open a file, rather than My Documents. How do I do this?

I want to redirect where My Documents takes me. I'm told I have to click Start button then click username. But there doesn't seem to be any username there. Help please.

I purchased a SSD a few months ago and re-installed Windows 7 Home Premium on the new drive setting it up as a boot drive... I relocated my libraries to the original HHD since the SSD has only 120GB capacity... This has lead to some issues... All of which i managed to overcome until now. I...

Dropbox is so convenient that I recently bought 1 tb space. So I am trying to make use of its large space. Here is my question. I use mainly "My Documents" folder (in Win 7 and 8 computers) for creating, updating and modifying files everyday. Then I MANUALLY sync the same My Documents...

Hello all, I am the soul user of my computer. I run it as Admin, unless I'm online banking or credit-carding. In that there are no other users, and never will be, I wonder if it's more reliable to keep my general data in the normal Users place (My Documents, etc.) or just on the root of the...

I would like to know how to set My Documents as my default folder when open up files in Windows 7

Is it possible in W7 to view My Documents files (word/pdf/images etc) by date created? Not modified or accessed but "created" Any assistance will be much appreciated :confused:

Hi, I have 2 users defined to my W7 computer, lets say Jack (administrator) and Jill (normal user). Both users have had their "My Documents" moved to a second disk drive E: as "Jack's Documents" and "Jill's Documents". Recently (I first noticed it on 26th August) both users started to see two...

Would it be possible to download (My Documents) from my XP 32 bit system to a flash drive and load it in my Win.7 64 bit system?

Alright so here's my problem: In Windows 7 I have no problem selecting multiple files in a normal folder for example. The problem is when using a program (such as Freestar AMR MP3 Converter) I cannot select multiple files at once. This can make using the program extremely tedious and...

Started using robocopy to do my backups. In my command lines, i can specify directories on a external drive to backup to.Some directories show up and i see everything. My most important directory " my documents" DOESNT SHOW UP. I have confirmed a backup is occuring, via log file and properties...

I would like to know how I can set up a default folder in windows 7 when opening up Office workbooks. If I open up Excel 2010, It defaults to to My Documents. However, if I click on a folder "Fixed Assets" to open up a workbook, Excel looks at the latest folder when wanting to open up...

Fixes an issue in which you experience slow performance when you browse the My Documents folder after you set the location of the folder to a DFS target. This issue occurs in the document library in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

Hi, Using Windows 7. Go to start Username "Joe". My User folder "Joe" is a subgroup of Libraries. I think the folder organization is messed up and probably the reason I can't get MediaCenter to work. Also My Documents data is found under Desktop/Libraries/Documents and also under Desktop/Joe...

When I Open up an Excel workbook, I would like to set up a default Folder when opening up regular workbook. For e.g I would like to set up My Documents as the default folder. If I open up a workbook in say "Downloads" Folder" , the folder must default back to My Documents" so that when I want to...

I have Windows 7 Home Premium, 32bit laptop. So this started with my accidentally deleting the 'My Documents'. At the time of deleting, i think it showed, My Documents is too large for recycle bin. That's why i can't find it there. (I have tried 'Recuva' to recover deleted files, but...

Ok, I know, I can change/set environment variables through Control Panel--->System The current environment variable values are fine for most of my programs. However there is one program which puts some config files into the folder which is currently defined as user variable "My...

I am the sole user of my computer and log on as the Preferred User. Whenever I want to open My Documents, My Pictures, etc., I have to first select Desktop, then Preferred User (I am the ONLY user and I have already logged in as the PREFERRED USER), then have to select My Documents, etc. Is...

I just got my new laptop with Windows 7 yesterday. My name is Janet but my personal folder says Jamet Is there an easy way to change this? Or just live with it. I don't know what the personal folder is there for anyway I seems to me it is just another My Documents. Thank You. And yes I feel silly.