Post by jojo on Nov 2, 2015 9:07:43 GMT
I've reported on here before about a problem I have been experienceing with Windows 10. Namely, that the Downloads icon is incorrectly named Documents and only points to Documents. When the Downloads Icon is pressed it open Documents.
A search of the web found others seem to be having similar problems. It seems to have become one of those Windows 10 niggles.
Anyway, I have a possible partial solutuon, which involves some tinkering with the registry.
Here specifically:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
RegEdit needs to be opened from a command line in W10, so type CMD in the search box, right click the CMD icon and run as Administrator. Then in the Command line enter: regedit
The first absolute must is to take a full backup copy of the registry. Mine came out at around 250k, but my installation is quite new. This cannot be over emphasised. (Apologies if I'm over emphasising!)
In the illustration above, there are three entries for D:\Documents and none for D:\Downlaods. One of these must be wrong These values are changed by clicking Edit, Modify, then altering the Value Data in the lower box.
In the illustration, the first shows the value as D:\Documents, while the second shows it as D:\Downloads.
After changing one, close the editor and restart the PC.
As it happens, on my PC, the first entry didn't work. It just changed the name of the Documents file so it was wrong. I replaced the original Value Data for that entry and changed the second listing of D:\Documents to D:\Downloads and again did a restart.
This time is worked perfectly.
I said partial because while I know enough to do this sort of basic tinkering, I still don't know what caused the problem. But since the best minds at M$ don't seem to either then I'm in good company.
A search of the web found others seem to be having similar problems. It seems to have become one of those Windows 10 niggles.
Anyway, I have a possible partial solutuon, which involves some tinkering with the registry.
Here specifically:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
RegEdit needs to be opened from a command line in W10, so type CMD in the search box, right click the CMD icon and run as Administrator. Then in the Command line enter: regedit
The first absolute must is to take a full backup copy of the registry. Mine came out at around 250k, but my installation is quite new. This cannot be over emphasised. (Apologies if I'm over emphasising!)
In the illustration above, there are three entries for D:\Documents and none for D:\Downlaods. One of these must be wrong These values are changed by clicking Edit, Modify, then altering the Value Data in the lower box.
In the illustration, the first shows the value as D:\Documents, while the second shows it as D:\Downloads.
After changing one, close the editor and restart the PC.
As it happens, on my PC, the first entry didn't work. It just changed the name of the Documents file so it was wrong. I replaced the original Value Data for that entry and changed the second listing of D:\Documents to D:\Downloads and again did a restart.
This time is worked perfectly.
I said partial because while I know enough to do this sort of basic tinkering, I still don't know what caused the problem. But since the best minds at M$ don't seem to either then I'm in good company.
