Tim_is_here
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I am running XP professional with SP2 on a PC with two users. For simplicity, I will call them User A and User B. User A (me) has administrative privileges, and User B is just a glorified guest account that hasn't been used in quite some time. I am the only one that uses this machine.
The problems I'm having are with the "A's Document's" and "B's Documents" folders under "My Computer". "Shared Documents" is fine.
The problem with "B's Documents" is that when I hover the mouse over that folder, it says the same thing as the "Shared Documents" folder: It says "Contains files and folders shared between users of this computer." Of course, in the case of "B's Documents" this is not true. This folder is not shared, and there is no "hand" showing under the folder. If I doubleclick on the folder, it goes to "C:\Documents and Settings\B\My Documents" as it should, and properly displays the files there.
The "A's Documents" folder has additional problems. First, like B, when you hover the mouse it gives the same message as above ("Contains files and folders shared between..."). Also like B, it isn't actually shared, and there is no "hand" under the folder. Unlike B though, it has the additional problem of pointing to the wrong place. If I double-click on "A's Documents" it takes me to "C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\My Documents". As this is empty, My Documents appears to be blank. However, if I go to "C:\Documents and Settings\A\My Documents" all of My Documents are indeed there (thank god).
I have no idea how this got all screwed up. I can tell you though that whatever happened, happened recently -- either today, or at most a couple of days ago. Before then, things were normal. I only noticed this problem today. I cannot afford to lose a day's work over this silliness though, so I cannot use a system restore point. Besides, I use GoBack, and the furthest I could go back is one day. Who knows if this would even be far enough back to fix the problem.
By the way, my machine is protected from viruses and spyware. Norton Antivirus is always running, as is Microsoft AntiSpyware. In addition, my PC runs Microsoft AntiSpyware and Lavasoft Ad-Aware full scans daily.
Any idea how I can fix this? "A's Documents" and "B's Documents" folders both are read-only. I know how to change that, and thought that maybe I could delete both these folders and recreate them -- but then they would appear as shortcuts instead of folders (I assume). And I'd wonder if there'd still be something inherently wrong with them, such as the incorrect hover text and who knows what else. So before messing with anything I thought I'd come here first. Any ideas on what might have happened, and what I should do? Thanks very much!
Tim
The problems I'm having are with the "A's Document's" and "B's Documents" folders under "My Computer". "Shared Documents" is fine.
The problem with "B's Documents" is that when I hover the mouse over that folder, it says the same thing as the "Shared Documents" folder: It says "Contains files and folders shared between users of this computer." Of course, in the case of "B's Documents" this is not true. This folder is not shared, and there is no "hand" showing under the folder. If I doubleclick on the folder, it goes to "C:\Documents and Settings\B\My Documents" as it should, and properly displays the files there.
The "A's Documents" folder has additional problems. First, like B, when you hover the mouse it gives the same message as above ("Contains files and folders shared between..."). Also like B, it isn't actually shared, and there is no "hand" under the folder. Unlike B though, it has the additional problem of pointing to the wrong place. If I double-click on "A's Documents" it takes me to "C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\My Documents". As this is empty, My Documents appears to be blank. However, if I go to "C:\Documents and Settings\A\My Documents" all of My Documents are indeed there (thank god).
I have no idea how this got all screwed up. I can tell you though that whatever happened, happened recently -- either today, or at most a couple of days ago. Before then, things were normal. I only noticed this problem today. I cannot afford to lose a day's work over this silliness though, so I cannot use a system restore point. Besides, I use GoBack, and the furthest I could go back is one day. Who knows if this would even be far enough back to fix the problem.
By the way, my machine is protected from viruses and spyware. Norton Antivirus is always running, as is Microsoft AntiSpyware. In addition, my PC runs Microsoft AntiSpyware and Lavasoft Ad-Aware full scans daily.
Any idea how I can fix this? "A's Documents" and "B's Documents" folders both are read-only. I know how to change that, and thought that maybe I could delete both these folders and recreate them -- but then they would appear as shortcuts instead of folders (I assume). And I'd wonder if there'd still be something inherently wrong with them, such as the incorrect hover text and who knows what else. So before messing with anything I thought I'd come here first. Any ideas on what might have happened, and what I should do? Thanks very much!
Tim
