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	Problem:
	Lost My Documents folder from Desktop. How do I get it back?

	
	Reason:
	The problem occurred when I used a 3rd-party utility IEradicator
	to uninstall and completely remove all traces of Internet Explorer
	5.0 from my machine in order to make a clean reinstallation of 
	Internet Explorer 5.5 -- I'd been having problems having installed
	IE 6.0 PP2 (a Beta version).
	
	The uninstall went well, and having reinstalled Internet Explorer 5.5
	I discovered that My Documents was missing from the Desktop. It was
	also missing from my Quick Launch bar, and the Send To right-click
	context menu.
	
	Solution:
	(1) Normally, when My Documents is working fine you will see a special
	folder on the Desktop called "My Documents". This is simply a special
	shortcut to whatever folder you have have your documents in! The default
	location is C:\My Documents, however you *can* change the folder to which
	this special shortcut points.
	
		(a) When My Documents is displaying correctly on your Desktop, simply 
		select the	folder (left-click on the folder once). Then right-click 
		to bring up the context menu and select Properties at the bottom of 
		the list. You will now be presented with a dialog which allows you
		change the location of My Documents. In my case it is C:\WORK
		
		(b) You can also change the location using TweakUI, the unsupported
		registry tweaking tool from Microsoft. Select the My Computer tab and
		in the Special Folders area select "My Documents" from the drop-down
		list.
		
		I used this latter method to determine that Windows still believed that
		My Documents was pointing to C:\WORK
		
	(2) In order to display the My Documents special folder on the Desktop I 
	needed to run regsvr32
	
Run the following command from the start>run box. This should repair the
mydocs registry entries. Reboot and try "Method 1" again.

regsvr32 mydocs.dll

	

	Reason:
	This can happen after installing 3rd party utilties.


	Solution:

	1.	Restart system.  After initial Power On Self 
		Test (POST) sequence is completed, press and
		hold down Ctrl key. When you get the Startup
		menu, select Command Prompt Only.
		(You could also use your Startup disk)


	2.	When you get a command prompt, type the following
		lines, and press Enter after each one.

		attrib -r -s -h  c:\recycled

		deltree c:\recycled


	3.	Now restart your system and the Recycle Bin will
		be automatically recreated, which should fix your problem.


	Source:

	PC Pro magazine, September 2000, p.259
	Real World Computing - Technical Support
	David Moss (dmoss@grindleys.co.uk)