Q: The folders listed under Documents in my Windows 7 PC are duplicated in LibrariesDocuments. Actually, I seem to have three Documents folders. Which is the real My Documents? A: There is only one ...

Q. When I moved from Windows 95 to Windows 2000, I was introduced to the My Documents folder. We were encouraged to use this folder structure for all local data since our local support group would ...

Q: Every time I right-click a photo on the Web and choose Save Picture As . . ., the default folder where Windows wants to save it is My Pictures. Likewise, when I go to insert a photo into a Word or ...

There's something vaguely twee and more than a bit annoying about the folder on Windows computers called 'My Documents'. To start with, there's no reason for the 'My' prefix: they're documents, and of ...

If you don't use My Documents to store your files and you're tired of working around it, try one of these tips for quickly accessing your frequently used files. By default, Office applications open ...

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I have recently started cleaning out the "My Documents" folder and I found that I don't use most of the other "My" folders. Can I nuke some of them without severe problems? Can I take en existing ...

In Windows, prior to Vista, My Documents was the default personal folder for storing data. My Music, My Pictures and other subfolders were located under My Documents. In Windows Vista, the names of ...