Documents Folder on This PC - File Explorer

Question

Hi,

For some reason since refreshing my Windows 10 installation, the Documents folder under This PC now points to the Documents folder on my One Drive. It always used to point to the documents folder in my users/(username) directory on my hard drive, and since this is the default location for all my own files I want to reinstate that setup.

I do not use, nor do I wish to use OneDrive to store any documents at all unless I expressly move or copy them there for access from another device.

It is inconvenient and time consuming to have to keep navigating to users/user/documents every time I open File Explorer.

The downloads, pictures and video folders under This PC all still point to the appropriate folders - the ones on my hard drive.

I have attempted changing the location of the current This PC>Documents folder but it is blocked, and in any case I don't think that would be the correct procedure.

Can anybody help please?

Answer 1

Well Dave, followed your instructions, and found the value data to be the full address of my OneDrive folder.

So with high hopes, I edited as suggested.

But unfortunately it has made no difference!!!!

Could there be another value elsewhere in the registry that I need to edit?

Answer 2

Hi Nick, this does seem to be an issue at the moment . . .

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

In the right hand pane, double click Personal

Set its value data to %USERPROFILE%\Documents

Click OK, close the Registry Editor and restart your PC

That will have moved that Documents location back to its default location in your User Profile folder

You may need to manually move some files form that OneDrive Documents folder into the correct folder, if you had saved any documents there . . .