How can I delete permanently My Folders in Windows 7?

Question

How can I delete permanently My Music/My Pictures/My Videos/etc. Folders in Windows 7? If you delete this folders manually, Windows Media Player 12 recreate all of them again, again and again! It's a nightmare. Anyone knows a registry hacking to get rid of these folders forever?

Note 1: I know how to disable the Libraries feature in Windows 7, but I don't want this, I want to delete only the folders named above.

note2: The "folders monitored" option doesn't exist in Windows Media Player 12.

Answer 1

I tried deleting c:\users\<myuser>\documents\My Videos and c:\users\<myuser>\documents\My Pictures and it worked fine.

However, trying to delete c:\users\<myuser>\Pictures and c:\users\<myuser>\Videos did not work, Windows Media Player did return them.

It never bothered me enough to find a "solution" for it in WMP configuration, but I might have a solution for you if you just want your music folder to be elsewhere.

I used Junction. It can create soft-links on your PC. I used it to change c:\users\<myuser>\Music to point to d:\Music. That way your music can remain in the library but from the path you like. (Notice the source and target of the link are on different partitions of the same physical drive, I do not know if it supports it on different physical drives (pretty sure it doesn't).

Hope that helps you.

Answer 2

I'm overworked, so don't have time to give you the answer; just some pointers - and will excuse it by claiming not to give you a fish, but to teach you to fish ...

In XP, I would have used Tweak Xp, the PowerToy Having said that, I wouldn't have deleted it, just redirected it to my D: drive (which is Data for me), or d:\music, d:\photos, etc. The one that annoys me most is autmatically insatlling to c:\program files, since I only have Windows on C: and my program sare on P: - for ease of reinstalling Windows.

Anyway - short anwer - Gogle.

Medium aswer - regedit. Hit Windows key + R and enter Regeit, to eidt the registry. Search for keys who's value is c:My Music/ etc .... at this opint, I can't say what happens if you delete them .. .maybe Windows will recreate them ... but you probably have your own personal choice of directries for photos/mosic/etc ... so why not just change the values?

Answer 3

1. Click start -> run

2. In the Open box, type regsvr32 /u mydocs.dll

3. Click OK and then click OK again to the 'DllUnregisterServer in mydocs.dll succeeded' dialog

4. Delete the My ... sub-folders that you do not want

Answer 4

Get junction file in RonK's answer and run the following commands in a Command Prompt window that is running as Administrator:

junction -d "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Music"
junction -d "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Pictures"
junction -d "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Videos"

Answer 5

Delete the folders from the library and then go to registry and find this path HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders. Here you will see the values of these three folders MY Music, My Video and My Picture just delete them.

Mydigitallife has a trick to delete the library from explorer.

Also check out How to open My computer or document by default in windows 7.

Answer 6

1.Run Windows Media Center. 2.Go to the "Tasks" section. 3.Open "Settings" from the "Task" section. 4.Click "Media Libraries." 5.Select the type of media for which you wish to remove folders, such as "Music" or "Pictures." Click "Next." 6.Select the "Remove folders" option. Click "Next." 7.Remove the checkmark from the box next to each folder you wish to remove. Click "Next." 8.Click "Yes" to proceed with the changes. Click "Finish."