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Home folders renaming to My Documents
It seems that every time one of our users logs into the domain on a Windows 7 computer, their home drive on the file server gets renamed to My Documents.
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From what I am reading on the internet, this has something to do with Desktop.ini. But creating scripts to delete this file constantly isnt really a fix. Is there something we can do to prevent this from happening in the future?

At the moment we only have around 20-30 people using Windows 7, so we can fix those directories manually without an issue. But in a month we will have 300-400 people in windows 7, and that would be a massive pain to have to fix all those accounts manually.

I am looking for a FIX, not a workaround.

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Avatar of Chris PattersonChris Patterson

See the following article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947222
Avatar of Lee OsborneLee Osborne🇬🇧

I've had this same issue for about a year now, since we started migrating to Windows 7. I've just been thinking about this and may have found a solution, although it may be easier for us as we only redirect each user in a team to a team-shared home folder, instead of a home folder per every user.

In the home folder, you will find a desktop.ini file. If you open it, it will list 'PersonalizedName' which will probably be My Documents. This is what the name of the folder is when it is viewed by the other users, i.e., all list as My Documents.

I'm not sure how easy this would be for a lot of users, as I only have to do this for maybe 12 team folders. However, there is a Powershell script on this page which will batch Deny read access to the desktop.ini file, and therefore prevent the 'display name' from showing as My Documents.

http://blog.salamandersoft.co.uk/index.php/2010/09/how-to-stop-home-folders-being-renamed-documents-in-the-network-share/ .

Lee
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Avatar of David Johnson, CDDavid Johnson, CD🇨🇦

I don't understand why this is a problem? You redirect the users folders to the server so that the user can logon to any machine (handy when their machine goes down and you substitute another pc) and still have access to their user files. so when you create the user folder just add a subdirectory 'documents' or restrict access to the desktop.ini
Avatar of johnb6767johnb6767🇺🇸

Highlight one of those My Documents folders, and click in the address bar... Does the path change?
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Sorry for the delay. We decided to just ignore it for now and look into the suggested workaround at a later time
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