Q: I have accidentally deleted the Music and the Videos folder. How can I recreate those special folders?
A: Click Start, type the following commands one by one and press ENTER
shell:My Music
shell:My Video
You’ll get the following error messages after running the above commands:
Windows cannot find ‘shell:My Music’. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.
Windows cannot find ‘shell:My Video’. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.
This is expected. By now, Windows would have created the two missing folders automatically. Logoff and login back in order to access the Music, Videos folders.
See also:
- Shell: commands to access the special folders | The Winhelponline.com Blog
- Nothing happens when you click on a shell folder link in the Start menu
- How to move the special folders in Windows Vista
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Ramesh Srinivasan;
For the Folder descriptive’s like:
Name
Date Modified
Size
Type
are OK with me but I do not want these descriptives:
Date Taken
Tags
Rating
Then how do I get Vista to stop putting those in the folders automatically so I have to remove & change them? There must be a Registry trick to do this but I cannot locate it by searching for either descriptive. I then have to set the view to Details and go to right click Name so that I then can click “Size Column to Fit”. Extremely annoying to me that this has nothing to explain it to me and to change it so every folder appears the same.
(Mike)