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My Desktop is my D drive. Please help!

Anonymous
2024-12-02T05:21:52+00:00

This happened a year ago or something, but I wanted to move my Documents from my C drive to my D drive. Somewhere in doing so my Desktop became my whole D drive. Like if I were to delete something off my desktop it would delete off my D drive. I hope that makes sense.

I've been reading and looking around for help with the problem I have. I don't really understand it or when trying to follow along with the instructions, something is different then my computer. Also the ones I've been reading are at least two to five years old. Some people say to open the Registry Editor or do a System Restore. I've read about System Restore and it doesn't seem it would help me at all. With the Registry Editor it seems like the one I could do, but the thing I read had something that my computer doesn't have.

This is my last attempt before, I don't know, getting rid of it or I guess just keeping it the same. I've had this problem for a year or so, I really should've done something then, but I never really had a problem until now.

I'm sorry, but the photo won't upload.

I'll just put down what some of the Registry Editor says.

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

  • {F42EE2D3-909F-4907-8871-4C22FC0BF756} = D:\
  • Desktop = D:\
  • Personal = D:\

They all say the Value Data is D:\ and I don't really know what it means.

(I also hope my writing is not confusing and I have given enough explanation on my problem.)

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  1. DaveM121 882.8K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-12-02T07:55:01+00:00

    Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

    I need to see your registry settings so I can provide you with a solution.

    Click your Start Button, type regedit and hit Enter to open the Registry Editor.

    Click View and make sure 'Address Bar' is turned on.

    Paste this into the Address Bar at the top and hit Enter.

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

    Please provide a screenshot of that Registry Editor page.

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  2. DaveM121 882.8K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-12-03T07:30:30+00:00

    Thank you for the screenshot.

    1

    Open File Explorer, then on the D drive, create two new folders, name one Desktop and name the other folder Documents.

    Move the files that should be in those folders from the root of the D drive into those two folders.

    Close File Explorer.

    2

    Open the Registry Editor again, it will still be in the same location.

    3

    Double click Desktop, set its Value Data to this and click OK

    D:\Desktop

    4

    Double click {F42EE2D3-909F-4907-8871-4C22FC0BF756}, set its Value Data to this and click OK

    D:\Documents

    5

    Double click Personal, set its Value Data to this and click OK

    D:\Documents

    6

    Close the Registry Editor, then restart your PC to apply the changes.

    That process will have split the Desktop and Documents folder from the root of the D drive.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-02T22:31:56+00:00

    Here's the screenshot, I hope I did it correctly.

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