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 automatically installing to C:\Program Files
, since I have only Windows on C:
and my programs are on P:
- for ease of reinstalling Windows.
Anyway - short answer - Google.
Medium answer - regedit. Hit (Windows key)+R and enter regedit
(and Enter), to edit the registry. Search for keys whose value is C:\My Music
, etc... At this point, I can't say what happens if you delete them. Maybe Windows will recreate them, but you probably have your own personal choice of directories for photos/music/etc., so why not just change the values?
c:\users\<myuser>\pictures
or to the link created from that path underc:\users\<myuser>\documents\My Pictures
?