My Music regedit

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My Music folder was lost (hard drive crash). I had moved it off the C: drive
to an other internal hard drive (320GB) for my 18,000 songs.
I tried to create it in default My Documents folder which is ok but Windows
doesn't recognize it.
I tried the Start - Properties - Start Menu - Customize - Advanced - My
Music - Display as a link but it still doesn't show in the start menu and,
more importantly, iTunes can't find it either.
I tried TweakUI but that doesn't list MY Music as one of the SPECIAL FOLDERS
that I can change the location to.
I have updated the registry but when I restart the computer my registry is
reset to not finding the My Music folder. Is there a key I am missing?
Is there a next step? Thanks in advance.
 
You could try this link http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm from
Kellys Korner, search down the page for line 240.

Neil

"Blue Rocks" <Blue Rocks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My Music folder was lost (hard drive crash). I had moved it off the C:
> drive
> to an other internal hard drive (320GB) for my 18,000 songs.
> I tried to create it in default My Documents folder which is ok but
> Windows
> doesn't recognize it.
> I tried the Start - Properties - Start Menu - Customize - Advanced - My
> Music - Display as a link but it still doesn't show in the start menu and,
> more importantly, iTunes can't find it either.
> I tried TweakUI but that doesn't list MY Music as one of the SPECIAL
> FOLDERS
> that I can change the location to.
> I have updated the registry but when I restart the computer my registry is
> reset to not finding the My Music folder. Is there a key I am missing?
> Is there a next step? Thanks in advance.
 
You might use regedt32 to look at:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders

But the most likely problem is 'ownership' of the files.
HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q308421
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"Blue Rocks" wrote:

> My Music folder was lost (hard drive crash). I had moved it off the C: drive
> to an other internal hard drive (320GB) for my 18,000 songs.
> I tried to create it in default My Documents folder which is ok but Windows
> doesn't recognize it.
> I tried the Start - Properties - Start Menu - Customize - Advanced - My
> Music - Display as a link but it still doesn't show in the start menu and,
> more importantly, iTunes can't find it either.
> I tried TweakUI but that doesn't list MY Music as one of the SPECIAL FOLDERS
> that I can change the location to.
> I have updated the registry but when I restart the computer my registry is
> reset to not finding the My Music folder. Is there a key I am missing?
> Is there a next step? Thanks in advance.
 
Blue Rocks wrote:

> My Music folder was lost (hard drive crash). I had moved it off the
> C: drive to an other internal hard drive (320GB) for my 18,000 songs.
> I tried to create it in default My Documents folder which is ok but
> Windows doesn't recognize it.
> I tried the Start - Properties - Start Menu - Customize - Advanced -
> My Music - Display as a link but it still doesn't show in the start
> menu and, more importantly, iTunes can't find it either.
> I tried TweakUI but that doesn't list MY Music as one of the SPECIAL
> FOLDERS that I can change the location to.
> I have updated the registry but when I restart the computer my
> registry is reset to not finding the My Music folder. Is there a key
> I am missing? Is there a next step? Thanks in advance.

Hi Blue Rocks,

Try restting the Shell Folder paths using Ramesh's article.

Reset the Shell Folders paths to defaults
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm

[Courtesy of Ramesh Srinivasan, MVP]

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William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
 
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