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c:\user\ajma\Documents showing as "My Documents" instead of "Documents"

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Mar 15, 20262420 views
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I have a physical path named: c:\user\ajma\Documents but when I look at it in explorer, it keeps showing up as "My Documents". Does anyone know where the setting is to make it display "Documents"? (same thing for "My Music", "My Videos", etc...) I'm on a domain so I'm assuming it's a group policy o…

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Fix for: c:\user\ajma\Documents showing as "My Documents" instead of "Documents"

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You can just rename it and it'll show the new display name. Renaming through explorer will not rename the actual folder. More information: The directory name is Documents, if you look inside of it you'll see a hidden desktop.ini folder. Explorer is …

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