There's something vaguely twee and more than a bit annoying about the folder on Windows computers called 'My Documents'. To start with, there's no reason for the 'My' prefix: they're documents, and of ...

Q: The folders listed under Documents in my Windows 7 PC are duplicated in LibrariesDocuments. Actually, I seem to have three Documents folders. Which is the real My Documents? A: There is only one ...

Q: Every time I right-click a photo on the Web and choose Save Picture As . . ., the default folder where Windows wants to save it is My Pictures. Likewise, when I go to insert a photo into a Word or ...

The My documents folder was made private by an administrator account (mine, this is my personal machine). I started experiencing trouble with an online game and was worried i might have spyware on my ...

Q. When I moved from Windows 95 to Windows 2000, I was introduced to the My Documents folder. We were encouraged to use this folder structure for all local data since our local support group would ...

In Windows, prior to Vista, My Documents was the default personal folder for storing data. My Music, My Pictures and other subfolders were located under My Documents. In Windows Vista, the names of ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2008. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. However, I finally got ...

Well, I am having a problem.<BR><BR>We are redirecting user's My Documents to their home drive by using Group Policy. Everything should be fine and working, but for ...

The popular cross-platform file-syncing application Dropbox is a hit among Lifehacker readers, but it has one major drawback: It only syncs files placed inside the My Dropbox folder. Here's how to get ...