Get Rid of Shared Documents

New to Windows XP is a "Shared Documents" folder that appears in My Computer.
This is really just a pointer to another area on disk. You can keep this from
appearing by deleting the following Subkey from the Registry:


Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\My
Computer\NameSpace\DelegateFolders
Subkey: {59031a47-3f72- 44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}


Delete the whole Subkey and all that it contains. You may wish to right-click this
Subkey and export it before deleting it, just to be safe. This also will prevent the
current users "My Documents" from showing up in the same area of My Computer.
Use caution and frequent backups when editing the Registry.

Home