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Why do home directories keep changing themselves from %username%$ to "My Documents"?

Why do home directories keep changing themselves from %username%$ to "My Documents"? I have yet to confirm if renaming this Folder to the username will hold. Coming into the environment I cannot tell if this is something wrong with the way things are setup or if they might have done folder redirection in the past.
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Windows Server 2008Windows Server 2003* Permission tabSecurity

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David Johnson, CD

8/22/2022 - Mon
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Peter Hutchison

You need to modify the hidden Desktop.ini file so that the first line looks similar to this, the value at the end should be zero:

LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,0

Then set the file Read-only attribute to enabled to avoid it being changed. Then it will display the correct name.
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