My documents

Personal folders overview
My Documents is your personal folder. It contains two specialised personal
folders, My Pictures and My Music. You can make your personal folders
available to everyone, or you can make them private so that only you can
access the files within them.

Windows creates personal folders for every user on the computer. When there
is more than one person using the computer, each personal folder is
identified by the user's name. For example, if John and Jane use the same
computer, there will be two sets of personal folders: John's Documents,
Music, and Pictures, and Jane's Documents, Music, and Pictures. When John is
logged on to the computer, his personal folders appear as My Documents, My
Pictures, and My Music, and Jane's appear as Jane's Documents, Jane's
Pictures, and Jane's Music.

Windows also provides a Shared Documents folder for files you want to share
with other users. Like My Documents, the Shared Documents folder contains a
Shared Pictures and Shared Music folder. These folders are for pictures and
music you want to share with other people who use your computer.

You can use Windows Explorer to access your personal folders or the Shared
Documents, Music, and Pictures folders. To open Windows Explorer, click
Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Windows
Explorer.

Bob,
I hope you don't mind me making comments on you set-up but a fundamental
point about "my documents" is worth pointing out.
You have made "my documents" exactly the same as "My computer" which gives
the overall structure of your hard disk
My documents are intended to include only files and folders you have created
so that they are stored quite separately from the programme files.
The above statement gives XP's explanation of "my documents" and is taken
from the Help file.
I don't make use of the divisions they mention My structure is according to
the titles of the folders.
I should say that your system works OK but when you eventually want to
backup your data it is desirable to have it as a discrete group.
It is more important to backup the data you have created because you already
have CDs which hold all your programmes and they can be easily reinstalled
but unless you backup properly you can loose your own data completely.
Hope this makes sense
Blair


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