XP: Delete My Videos and My Music folders from your My Documents folder

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In a typical XP system the My Videos and My Music folders will be recreated if deleted from the My Documents folder. Here’s how to delete them forever.


If you do not want the various subfolders such as “My Videos” and “My Music” from being recreated, just follow these directions.

Disable –

    1. Click Start
    2. Click Run
    3. Type the following in the run textbox regsvr32 /u mydocs.dll
    4. Click OK

Some programs may take advantage of a few of the features in mydocs.dll. If you notice a program not working correctly, you can re-enable it.

Enable –

    1. Click Start
    2. Click Run
    3. Type the following in the run textbox regsvr32 mydocs.dll
    4. Click OK

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5 Comments -


  1. ergophonic said on March 7, 2009

    Thanks for posting this but I tried it and every time I open Windows Media Player 11, “My Pictures” and “My Music” folders are recreated. I don’t have my rip folders set to them so why do they keep getting created?

    Thanks for you help.

  2. fearthecat said on April 23, 2009

    For the My Music folder, try going into the Options of WIndows Media Player, and go to the “Media Library” tab. Click the “Monitor Folders” button and remove the entry for My Music. Delete the My Music folder. Hopefully that will stop it coming back.

  3. fearthecat said on April 23, 2009

    I was looking for a way of deleting only certain folders, like “My Videos” and keeping “My Pictures” and “My Documents” (and then later having some control over how My Pictures is presented…

    This tip would remove all the My Documents features it seems, which is not quite what the title says

  4. Aa said on June 16, 2010

    It`s working! Thank you. Tired of deleting these useless folders all the time.

  5. scienex said on June 30, 2010

    sweeet! thnx!

 

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