Home folders not displaying usernames

I have a folder (G:\UsersFiles) with all the user's home directories (for
example called G:\UsersFiles\edward), but Windows Vista and Server 2008 are
not displaying the folders as the usernames, but is virtually renaming them
to "Documents".

I don't want all these folders called "Documents", I want their real names
to display instead.

How do I fix this?

Go to:
C:\Users\<username> (start/run, type : %userprofile%)
Rename the "Documents' folder to '<username>'s Documents

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"Edward" <> wrote in message
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>I have a folder (G:\UsersFiles) with all the user's home directories (for
> example called G:\UsersFiles\edward), but Windows Vista and Server 2008
> are
> not displaying the folders as the usernames, but is virtually renaming
> them
> to "Documents".
>
> I don't want all these folders called "Documents", I want their real names
> to display instead.
>
> How do I fix this?

Oh no!

There must be an easier way than to rename all the folders to display their
real folder names instead of the word "Documents" and to make sure that new
folders containing users' files are also not called "Documents"?

Thanks for your suggestion!

Edward

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> Go to:
> C:\Users\<username> (start/run, type : %userprofile%)
> Rename the "Documents' folder to '<username>'s Documents
>
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> Mark L. Ferguson
>
> .
> "Edward" <> wrote in message
> news:62BA4615-B28A-44CF-A20F-...
> >I have a folder (G:\UsersFiles) with all the user's home directories (for
> > example called G:\UsersFiles\edward), but Windows Vista and Server 2008
> > are
> > not displaying the folders as the usernames, but is virtually renaming
> > them
> > to "Documents".
> >
> > I don't want all these folders called "Documents", I want their real names
> > to display instead.
> >
> > How do I fix this?
>

Replied to your post in vista.file_management

PS to my post there:

Did you redirect you user's Documents folder to this folder? That is most
likely how they acquired the desktop.ini file for the 'Documents' folder.


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Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]



"Edward" <> wrote in message
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> Oh no!
>
> There must be an easier way than to rename all the folders to display
> their
> real folder names instead of the word "Documents" and to make sure that
> new
> folders containing users' files are also not called "Documents"?
>
> Thanks for your suggestion!
>
> Edward
>
> "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
>
>> Go to:
>> C:\Users\<username> (start/run, type : %userprofile%)
>> Rename the "Documents' folder to '<username>'s Documents
>>
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>> interface.
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>>
>> Mark L. Ferguson
>>
>> .
>> "Edward" <> wrote in message
>> news:62BA4615-B28A-44CF-A20F-...
>> >I have a folder (G:\UsersFiles) with all the user's home directories
>> >(for
>> > example called G:\UsersFiles\edward), but Windows Vista and Server 2008
>> > are
>> > not displaying the folders as the usernames, but is virtually renaming
>> > them
>> > to "Documents".
>> >
>> > I don't want all these folders called "Documents", I want their real
>> > names
>> > to display instead.
>> >
>> > How do I fix this?
>>