Start menu picture, music links not mapping to external hard drive

Moved pictures and music to an external hard drive and things were going
fine. Then operated pc for a period of time disconnected from the xHD, during
which time the Start Menu right collumn links to pictures and music also seem
to have lost their targets. When I right-click and select properties, only a
very basic menu appears which neither allows me to restore defaults or choose
a target location.

Any help with reconnecting the music and pictures links?

Look in the these keys in the Registry Editor:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders

What is the Data for the Names "My Music" and "My Pictures" (no quotation
marks).

The defaults for the first key should be "C:\Users\(You)\Music" and
"C:\Users\(You)\Pictures" (no quotation marks).

The defaults for the second key should be "%USERPROFILE%\Music" and
"%USERPROFILE%\Pictures" (no quotation marks).

"AD33" <> wrote in message
news:AE2B3AF5-4873-45BA-A56E-...
> Moved pictures and music to an external hard drive and things were going
> fine. Then operated pc for a period of time disconnected from the xHD,
> during
> which time the Start Menu right collumn links to pictures and music also
> seem
> to have lost their targets. When I right-click and select properties, only
> a
> very basic menu appears which neither allows me to restore defaults or
> choose
> a target location.
>
> Any help with reconnecting the music and pictures links?
>

THanks for your quick response, dean-dean. I am not familiar with the
Registry Editor, however. Once I find it, I think I can go from there, but if
someone could please point me to the Registry Editor (and maybe offer any
tips on its use) that would be helpful.

"dean-dean" wrote:

> Look in the these keys in the Registry Editor:
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Shell
> Folders
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\User
> Shell Folders
>
> What is the Data for the Names "My Music" and "My Pictures" (no quotation
> marks).
>
> The defaults for the first key should be "C:\Users\(You)\Music" and
> "C:\Users\(You)\Pictures" (no quotation marks).
>
> The defaults for the second key should be "%USERPROFILE%\Music" and
> "%USERPROFILE%\Pictures" (no quotation marks).
>
> "AD33" <> wrote in message
> news:AE2B3AF5-4873-45BA-A56E-...
> > Moved pictures and music to an external hard drive and things were going
> > fine. Then operated pc for a period of time disconnected from the xHD,
> > during
> > which time the Start Menu right collumn links to pictures and music also
> > seem
> > to have lost their targets. When I right-click and select properties, only
> > a
> > very basic menu appears which neither allows me to restore defaults or
> > choose
> > a target location.
> >
> > Any help with reconnecting the music and pictures links?
> >
>

I picked up on how to use the registry editor from another thread, followed
the above steps, and observed no change in the situation.

"AD33" wrote:

> THanks for your quick response, dean-dean. I am not familiar with the
> Registry Editor, however. Once I find it, I think I can go from there, but if
> someone could please point me to the Registry Editor (and maybe offer any
> tips on its use) that would be helpful.
>
> "dean-dean" wrote:
>
> > Look in the these keys in the Registry Editor:
> >
> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Shell
> > Folders
> >
> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\User
> > Shell Folders
> >
> > What is the Data for the Names "My Music" and "My Pictures" (no quotation
> > marks).
> >
> > The defaults for the first key should be "C:\Users\(You)\Music" and
> > "C:\Users\(You)\Pictures" (no quotation marks).
> >
> > The defaults for the second key should be "%USERPROFILE%\Music" and
> > "%USERPROFILE%\Pictures" (no quotation marks).
> >
> > "AD33" <> wrote in message
> > news:AE2B3AF5-4873-45BA-A56E-...
> > > Moved pictures and music to an external hard drive and things were going
> > > fine. Then operated pc for a period of time disconnected from the xHD,
> > > during
> > > which time the Start Menu right collumn links to pictures and music also
> > > seem
> > > to have lost their targets. When I right-click and select properties, only
> > > a
> > > very basic menu appears which neither allows me to restore defaults or
> > > choose
> > > a target location.
> > >
> > > Any help with reconnecting the music and pictures links?
> > >
> >

Nothing happens when you click on a shell folder link in the Windows Vista Start menu:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/180/1/

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"AD33" <> wrote in message news:AE2B3AF5-4873-45BA-A56E-...
Moved pictures and music to an external hard drive and things were going
fine. Then operated pc for a period of time disconnected from the xHD, during
which time the Start Menu right collumn links to pictures and music also seem
to have lost their targets. When I right-click and select properties, only a
very basic menu appears which neither allows me to restore defaults or choose
a target location.

Any help with reconnecting the music and pictures links?