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Started by helaus , Sep 12 2011 04:02 AM

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helaus

Posted 12 September 2011 - 04:02 AM

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I have screwed up my desktop - it is now trying to load from an external disk instead of the C: disk
my shortcuts are not showing and i cant create a folder - this only works if I connect the external drive
i understand there is a registry file that tells windows which desktop to load - does anyone know precisely which file this is and how to modify it

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Alzeimer

Posted 12 September 2011 - 02:05 PM

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Microsoft has a Fix-It solution that fixes most of the shell folder paths (both per-user and per-machine shell folders) automatically. You can download the fix from KB886549

http://go.microsoft....?linkid=9708107

hope this helps