All Users folder names corupted

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Lorne

I recently had to reinstall XP home, but something went wrong with the all
users documents folder. The music folder comes up as "My Music" rather than
"Shared Music" which is confusing when the music folder in the users My
Documents area is also called "My Music". Also it has a standard file
folder icon rather than the specific music folder icon that appears under
all user accounts and also used to appear under the all users documents. It
may have something to do with me not deleting the all users folder tree
prior to reinstall so all shared folders are now under c:\Documents and
settings\all users.WINDOWS rather than the original default loaction that
did not have .WINDOWS in the path.

Does anyone know the registry keys to edit in order to get these settings
back to normal (or another method if there is one) ?
 
Lorne,

It's probably due to missing desktop.ini. The quicker way to fix is using TweakUi > Repair folders

TweakUI v2.00 for Windows XP/XP MCE [564 KB].
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

TweakUI v2.10 for Windows XP SP1/XP MCE/2003 [147 KB].
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

TweakUI > Repair > Repair My Music icon.
[This just repairs/recreates the Desktop.ini with correct values inside.]

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I recently had to reinstall XP home, but something went wrong with the all
users documents folder. The music folder comes up as "My Music" rather than
"Shared Music" which is confusing when the music folder in the users My
Documents area is also called "My Music". Also it has a standard file
folder icon rather than the specific music folder icon that appears under
all user accounts and also used to appear under the all users documents. It
may have something to do with me not deleting the all users folder tree
prior to reinstall so all shared folders are now under c:\Documents and
settings\all users.WINDOWS rather than the original default loaction that
did not have .WINDOWS in the path.

Does anyone know the registry keys to edit in order to get these settings
back to normal (or another method if there is one) ?
 
For All Users\Documents\My Music

Make sure the desktop.ini file exists. If not, type "regsvr32 /i shell32" and copy the following contents to this file:

=======
[.ShellClassInfo]
[email protected],-12689
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
IconIndex=-237
[email protected],-28995
=======

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
-------------------------------------------
How to block Pop-ups?:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Popups.htm

Using ToolbarCop to remove the unwanted Toolband, Toolbar Icons and BHO:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/toolbarcop.htm
-------------------------------------------


I recently had to reinstall XP home, but something went wrong with the all
users documents folder. The music folder comes up as "My Music" rather than
"Shared Music" which is confusing when the music folder in the users My
Documents area is also called "My Music". Also it has a standard file
folder icon rather than the specific music folder icon that appears under
all user accounts and also used to appear under the all users documents. It
may have something to do with me not deleting the all users folder tree
prior to reinstall so all shared folders are now under c:\Documents and
settings\all users.WINDOWS rather than the original default loaction that
did not have .WINDOWS in the path.

Does anyone know the registry keys to edit in order to get these settings
back to normal (or another method if there is one) ?
 
Many thanks - this worked


For All Users\Documents\My Music

Make sure the desktop.ini file exists. If not, type "regsvr32 /i shell32"
and copy the following contents to this file:

=======
[.ShellClassInfo]
[email protected],-12689
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
IconIndex=-237
[email protected],-28995
=======

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
-------------------------------------------
How to block Pop-ups?:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Popups.htm

Using ToolbarCop to remove the unwanted Toolband, Toolbar Icons and BHO:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/toolbarcop.htm
-------------------------------------------


I recently had to reinstall XP home, but something went wrong with the all
users documents folder. The music folder comes up as "My Music" rather than
"Shared Music" which is confusing when the music folder in the users My
Documents area is also called "My Music". Also it has a standard file
folder icon rather than the specific music folder icon that appears under
all user accounts and also used to appear under the all users documents. It
may have something to do with me not deleting the all users folder tree
prior to reinstall so all shared folders are now under c:\Documents and
settings\all users.WINDOWS rather than the original default loaction that
did not have .WINDOWS in the path.

Does anyone know the registry keys to edit in order to get these settings
back to normal (or another method if there is one) ?
 
Most welcome.

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
-------------------------------------------
How to block Pop-ups?:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Popups.htm

Using ToolbarCop to remove the unwanted Toolband, Toolbar Icons and BHO:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/toolbarcop.htm
-------------------------------------------


Many thanks - this worked


For All Users\Documents\My Music

Make sure the desktop.ini file exists. If not, type "regsvr32 /i shell32"
and copy the following contents to this file:

=======
[.ShellClassInfo]
[email protected],-12689
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
IconIndex=-237
[email protected],-28995
=======

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
-------------------------------------------
How to block Pop-ups?:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Popups.htm

Using ToolbarCop to remove the unwanted Toolband, Toolbar Icons and BHO:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/toolbarcop.htm
-------------------------------------------


I recently had to reinstall XP home, but something went wrong with the all
users documents folder. The music folder comes up as "My Music" rather than
"Shared Music" which is confusing when the music folder in the users My
Documents area is also called "My Music". Also it has a standard file
folder icon rather than the specific music folder icon that appears under
all user accounts and also used to appear under the all users documents. It
may have something to do with me not deleting the all users folder tree
prior to reinstall so all shared folders are now under c:\Documents and
settings\all users.WINDOWS rather than the original default loaction that
did not have .WINDOWS in the path.

Does anyone know the registry keys to edit in order to get these settings
back to normal (or another method if there is one) ?
 
Dear Ramesh,

Having told you your solution worked, something has now overwritten
desktop.ini with the code below and I am back with the old problem. I can
obviously edit desktop.ini again but why is the data being overwritten? It
looks like the work of windows media player or have I got some rogue
software on my system?

New code is:
[.ShellClassInfo]
FolderType=MusicAlbum
MusicBuyUrl=providerName=AMG&albumID=AB4CB91D-0C49-48BD-8D48-41E5B2220BD6&a_
id=R%20%20%20184137&album=What's%20Love%20Got%20to%20Do%20with%20It&artistID
=6F1691C5-9E13-42DB-A8D9-10B614837D25&p_id=P%20%20%20%20%205714&artist=Tina%
20Turner&locale=409&version=9.0.0.3075



Most welcome.

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
-------------------------------------------
How to block Pop-ups?:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Popups.htm

Using ToolbarCop to remove the unwanted Toolband, Toolbar Icons and BHO:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/toolbarcop.htm
-------------------------------------------


Many thanks - this worked


For All Users\Documents\My Music

Make sure the desktop.ini file exists. If not, type "regsvr32 /i shell32"
and copy the following contents to this file:

=======
[.ShellClassInfo]
[email protected],-12689
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
IconIndex=-237
[email protected],-28995
=======

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
-------------------------------------------
How to block Pop-ups?:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Popups.htm

Using ToolbarCop to remove the unwanted Toolband, Toolbar Icons and BHO:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/toolbarcop.htm
-------------------------------------------


I recently had to reinstall XP home, but something went wrong with the all
users documents folder. The music folder comes up as "My Music" rather than
"Shared Music" which is confusing when the music folder in the users My
Documents area is also called "My Music". Also it has a standard file
folder icon rather than the specific music folder icon that appears under
all user accounts and also used to appear under the all users documents. It
may have something to do with me not deleting the all users folder tree
prior to reinstall so all shared folders are now under c:\Documents and
settings\all users.WINDOWS rather than the original default loaction that
did not have .WINDOWS in the path.

Does anyone know the registry keys to edit in order to get these settings
back to normal (or another method if there is one) ?
 
Lorne

| [.ShellClassInfo]
| FolderType=MusicAlbum
| MusicBuyUrl=providerName=AMG&albumID=AB4CB91D-0C49-48BD-8D48-41E5B2220BD6&a_
| id=R%20%20%20184137&album=What's%20Love%20Got%20to%20Do%20with%20It&artistID
| =6F1691C5-9E13-42DB-A8D9-10B614837D25&p_id=P%20%20%20%20%205714&artist=Tina%
| 20Turner&locale=409&version=9.0.0.3075

translates to...

[.ShellClassInfo]

FolderType=MusicAlbum

MusicBuy

Url=provider

Name=AMG

albumID=AB4CB91D-0C49-48BD-8D48-41E5B2220BD6
a_id=R 184137

album=What's Love Got to Do with It

artistID=6F1691C5-9E13-42DB-A8D9-10B614837D25
p_id=P 5714
artist=Tina Turner

locale=409
version=9.0.0.3075

Do any of "MusicBuy" or "AMG" or
"What's Love Got to Do with It" sound familiar?

--
Jan
----------


| Dear Ramesh,
|
| Having told you your solution worked, something has now overwritten
| desktop.ini with the code below and I am back with the old problem. I can
| obviously edit desktop.ini again but why is the data being overwritten? It
| looks like the work of windows media player or have I got some rogue
| software on my system?
|
| New code is:
| [.ShellClassInfo]
| FolderType=MusicAlbum
| MusicBuyUrl=providerName=AMG&albumID=AB4CB91D-0C49-48BD-8D48-41E5B2220BD6&a_
| id=R%20%20%20184137&album=What's%20Love%20Got%20to%20Do%20with%20It&artistID
| =6F1691C5-9E13-42DB-A8D9-10B614837D25&p_id=P%20%20%20%20%205714&artist=Tina%
| 20Turner&locale=409&version=9.0.0.3075
|
|
|
|
| --
| Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
| http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


| Many thanks - this worked
|
|
| For All Users\Documents\My Music
|
| Make sure the desktop.ini file exists. If not, type "regsvr32 /i shell32"
| and copy the following contents to this file:
|
| =======
| [.ShellClassInfo]
| [email protected],-12689
| IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
| IconIndex=-237
| [email protected],-28995
| =======
|
| --
| Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
| http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


| I recently had to reinstall XP home, but something went wrong with the all
| users documents folder. The music folder comes up as "My Music" rather than
| "Shared Music" which is confusing when the music folder in the users My
| Documents area is also called "My Music". Also it has a standard file
| folder icon rather than the specific music folder icon that appears under
| all user accounts and also used to appear under the all users documents. It
| may have something to do with me not deleting the all users folder tree
| prior to reinstall so all shared folders are now under c:\Documents and
| settings\all users.WINDOWS rather than the original default loaction that
| did not have .WINDOWS in the path.
|
| Does anyone know the registry keys to edit in order to get these settings
| back to normal (or another method if there is one) ?
 
+-J:

They are all familiar:

AMG is embedded into media player and provides the lookup for album art when
you play a track and the lookup for missing track data rather like CDDB, and
they also sell CD's if you click the "want to buy" button.

"Whats Love got to do with it" is an album by Tinan turner that I bought
many years ago and copied to MP3 format on my computer, but it is one of
over 200 albums I have and there is no special reason I know for it to be
singled out.

version=9.0.0.3075 is the version number for my copy of media player.

Now if I edit desktop.ini to what it should be it works fine until I use
media player & then it all goes wrong again.



+-J said:
Lorne

| [.ShellClassInfo]
| FolderType=MusicAlbum
| MusicBuyUrl=providerName=AMG&albumID=AB4CB91D-0C49-48BD-8D48-41E5B2220BD6&a_
|
Click to expand...
id=R%20%20%20184137&album=What's%20Love%20Got%20to%20Do%20with%20It&artistID
|
Click to expand...
=6F1691C5-9E13-42DB-A8D9-10B614837D25&p_id=P%20%20%20%20%205714&artist=Tina%
| 20Turner&locale=409&version=9.0.0.3075

translates to...

[.ShellClassInfo]

FolderType=MusicAlbum

MusicBuy

Url=provider

Name=AMG

albumID=AB4CB91D-0C49-48BD-8D48-41E5B2220BD6
a_id=R 184137

album=What's Love Got to Do with It

artistID=6F1691C5-9E13-42DB-A8D9-10B614837D25
p_id=P 5714
artist=Tina Turner

locale=409
version=9.0.0.3075

Do any of "MusicBuy" or "AMG" or
"What's Love Got to Do with It" sound familiar?

--
Jan
----------


| Dear Ramesh,
|
| Having told you your solution worked, something has now overwritten
| desktop.ini with the code below and I am back with the old problem. I can
| obviously edit desktop.ini again but why is the data being overwritten? It
| looks like the work of windows media player or have I got some rogue
| software on my system?
|
| New code is:
| [.ShellClassInfo]
| FolderType=MusicAlbum
| MusicBuyUrl=providerName=AMG&albumID=AB4CB91D-0C49-48BD-8D48-41E5B2220BD6&a_
|
Click to expand...
id=R%20%20%20184137&album=What's%20Love%20Got%20to%20Do%20with%20It&artistID
|
Click to expand...
=6F1691C5-9E13-42DB-A8D9-10B614837D25&p_id=P%20%20%20%20%205714&artist=Tina%
| 20Turner&locale=409&version=9.0.0.3075
|
|
|
|
| --
| Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
| http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


| Many thanks - this worked
|
|
| For All Users\Documents\My Music
|
| Make sure the desktop.ini file exists. If not, type "regsvr32 /i shell32"
| and copy the following contents to this file:
|
| =======
| [.ShellClassInfo]
| [email protected],-12689
| IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
| IconIndex=-237
| [email protected],-28995
| =======
|
| --
| Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
| http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


| I recently had to reinstall XP home, but something went wrong with the all
| users documents folder. The music folder comes up as "My Music" rather than
| "Shared Music" which is confusing when the music folder in the users My
| Documents area is also called "My Music". Also it has a standard file
| folder icon rather than the specific music folder icon that appears under
| all user accounts and also used to appear under the all users documents. It
| may have something to do with me not deleting the all users folder tree
| prior to reinstall so all shared folders are now under c:\Documents and
| settings\all users.WINDOWS rather than the original default loaction that
| did not have .WINDOWS in the path.
|
| Does anyone know the registry keys to edit in order to get these settings
| back to normal (or another method if there is one) ?
Click to expand...
 
Lorne,

Just fishing for clues here...

Have you played that track recently?

Did you click a mouse button while the mouse pointer was on the viewing pane of media player, and that track was either being
played or it was the most recently played track?

In Windows Media Player,
on the File menu
select | Open URL |

In the resulting "Open URL" dialog box, click on the drop-down "down-arrow".

Does anything in the drop-down list appear to be related to that track?

--
Jan
----------

| +-J:
|
| They are all familiar:
|
| AMG is embedded into media player and provides the lookup for album art when
| you play a track and the lookup for missing track data rather like CDDB, and
| they also sell CD's if you click the "want to buy" button.
|
| "Whats Love got to do with it" is an album by Tinan turner that I bought
| many years ago and copied to MP3 format on my computer, but it is one of
| over 200 albums I have and there is no special reason I know for it to be
| singled out.
|
| version=9.0.0.3075 is the version number for my copy of media player.
|
| Now if I edit desktop.ini to what it should be it works fine until I use
| media player & then it all goes wrong again.
|
|
|
| > Lorne
| >
| > | [.ShellClassInfo]
| > | FolderType=MusicAlbum
| > |
| MusicBuyUrl=providerName=AMG&albumID=AB4CB91D-0C49-48BD-8D48-41E5B2220BD6&a_
| > |
| id=R%20%20%20184137&album=What's%20Love%20Got%20to%20Do%20with%20It&artistID
| > |
| =6F1691C5-9E13-42DB-A8D9-10B614837D25&p_id=P%20%20%20%20%205714&artist=Tina%
| > | 20Turner&locale=409&version=9.0.0.3075
| >
| > translates to...
| >
| > [.ShellClassInfo]
| >
| > FolderType=MusicAlbum
| >
| > MusicBuy
| >
| > Url=provider
| >
| > Name=AMG
| >
| > albumID=AB4CB91D-0C49-48BD-8D48-41E5B2220BD6
| > a_id=R 184137
| >
| > album=What's Love Got to Do with It
| >
| > artistID=6F1691C5-9E13-42DB-A8D9-10B614837D25
| > p_id=P 5714
| > artist=Tina Turner
| >
| > locale=409
| > version=9.0.0.3075
| >
| > Do any of "MusicBuy" or "AMG" or
| > "What's Love Got to Do with It" sound familiar?
| >
| > --
| > Jan
 
As far as I know I have done nothing to cause this. I have 4,000 tracks in
MP3 (my entire CD & record collection) and 95% of the time just use it as
background music set to play all tracks randomly. Can't remember the last
time I ever did anything other than press play, stop, or close.

Media player does a lot of things behind your back - it monitors the music
folder and adds tracks to the library when you copy them there, it
interogates AMG to get album art and fill in missing ID3 data and no doubt a
lot more and I am connected to the internet 100% of the time so every file
is fully up to date with all relevant data like release date, composer,
genre & everything else. When you play tracks it also displays album
information & cover art.

I have searched every corner of the settings dialogue without finding
anything so I am about to delete all cookies to see if AMG have placed
something on my hard disk that does this. If you do not know the answer
however I doubt you will think of anything I have not covered and as nobody
has replied in the media news group or the XP help & support group my guess
is that the experts do not know either.



+-J said:
Lorne,

Just fishing for clues here...

Have you played that track recently?

Did you click a mouse button while the mouse pointer was on the viewing
Click to expand...
pane of media player, and that track was either being
played or it was the most recently played track?

In Windows Media Player,
on the File menu
select | Open URL |

In the resulting "Open URL" dialog box, click on the drop-down "down-arrow".

Does anything in the drop-down list appear to be related to that track?

--
Jan
----------

| +-J:
|
| They are all familiar:
|
| AMG is embedded into media player and provides the lookup for album art when
| you play a track and the lookup for missing track data rather like CDDB, and
| they also sell CD's if you click the "want to buy" button.
|
| "Whats Love got to do with it" is an album by Tinan turner that I bought
| many years ago and copied to MP3 format on my computer, but it is one of
| over 200 albums I have and there is no special reason I know for it to be
| singled out.
|
| version=9.0.0.3075 is the version number for my copy of media player.
|
| Now if I edit desktop.ini to what it should be it works fine until I use
| media player & then it all goes wrong again.
|
|
|
| > Lorne
| >
| > | [.ShellClassInfo]
| > | FolderType=MusicAlbum
| > |
| MusicBuyUrl=providerName=AMG&albumID=AB4CB91D-0C49-48BD-8D48-41E5B2220BD6&a_
| > |
| id=R%20%20%20184137&album=What's%20Love%20Got%20to%20Do%20with%20It&artistID
| > |
| =6F1691C5-9E13-42DB-A8D9-10B614837D25&p_id=P%20%20%20%20%205714&artist=Tina%
| > | 20Turner&locale=409&version=9.0.0.3075
| >
| > translates to...
| >
| > [.ShellClassInfo]
| >
| > FolderType=MusicAlbum
| >
| > MusicBuy
| >
| > Url=provider
| >
| > Name=AMG
| >
| > albumID=AB4CB91D-0C49-48BD-8D48-41E5B2220BD6
| > a_id=R 184137
| >
| > album=What's Love Got to Do with It
| >
| > artistID=6F1691C5-9E13-42DB-A8D9-10B614837D25
| > p_id=P 5714
| > artist=Tina Turner
| >
| > locale=409
| > version=9.0.0.3075
| >
| > Do any of "MusicBuy" or "AMG" or
| > "What's Love Got to Do with It" sound familiar?
| >
| > --
| > Jan
Click to expand...
 
Since you were interested it seems that this behaviour is caused by some
stupid contractural obligation imposed on the company supplying metadata
info to the media player.

see http://tinyurl.com/3ezxd


Lorne



+-J said:
Lorne,

Just fishing for clues here...

Have you played that track recently?

Did you click a mouse button while the mouse pointer was on the viewing
Click to expand...
pane of media player, and that track was either being
played or it was the most recently played track?

In Windows Media Player,
on the File menu
select | Open URL |

In the resulting "Open URL" dialog box, click on the drop-down "down-arrow".

Does anything in the drop-down list appear to be related to that track?

--
Jan
----------

| +-J:
|
| They are all familiar:
|
| AMG is embedded into media player and provides the lookup for album art when
| you play a track and the lookup for missing track data rather like CDDB, and
| they also sell CD's if you click the "want to buy" button.
|
| "Whats Love got to do with it" is an album by Tinan turner that I bought
| many years ago and copied to MP3 format on my computer, but it is one of
| over 200 albums I have and there is no special reason I know for it to be
| singled out.
|
| version=9.0.0.3075 is the version number for my copy of media player.
|
| Now if I edit desktop.ini to what it should be it works fine until I use
| media player & then it all goes wrong again.
|
|
|
| > Lorne
| >
| > | [.ShellClassInfo]
| > | FolderType=MusicAlbum
| > |
| MusicBuyUrl=providerName=AMG&albumID=AB4CB91D-0C49-48BD-8D48-41E5B2220BD6&a_
| > |
| id=R%20%20%20184137&album=What's%20Love%20Got%20to%20Do%20with%20It&artistID
| > |
| =6F1691C5-9E13-42DB-A8D9-10B614837D25&p_id=P%20%20%20%20%205714&artist=Tina%
| > | 20Turner&locale=409&version=9.0.0.3075
| >
| > translates to...
| >
| > [.ShellClassInfo]
| >
| > FolderType=MusicAlbum
| >
| > MusicBuy
| >
| > Url=provider
| >
| > Name=AMG
| >
| > albumID=AB4CB91D-0C49-48BD-8D48-41E5B2220BD6
| > a_id=R 184137
| >
| > album=What's Love Got to Do with It
| >
| > artistID=6F1691C5-9E13-42DB-A8D9-10B614837D25
| > p_id=P 5714
| > artist=Tina Turner
| >
| > locale=409
| > version=9.0.0.3075
| >
| > Do any of "MusicBuy" or "AMG" or
| > "What's Love Got to Do with It" sound familiar?
| >
| > --
| > Jan
Click to expand...
 
Lorne,

Thanks.

--
Jan
----------


| Since you were interested it seems that this behaviour is caused by some
| stupid contractural obligation imposed on the company supplying metadata
| info to the media player.
|
| see http://tinyurl.com/3ezxd
| Lorne

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something has now overwritten
desktop.ini with the code below and I am back with the old problem. I can
obviously edit desktop.ini again but why is the data being overwritten? It
looks like the work of windows media player or have I got some rogue
software on my system?

New code is:
[.ShellClassInfo]
FolderType=MusicAlbum
MusicBuyUrl=providerName=AMG&albumID=AB4CB91D-0C49-48BD-8D48-41E5B2220BD6&a_
id=R%20%20%20184137&album=What's%20Love%20Got%20to%20Do%20with%20It&artistID
=6F1691C5-9E13-42DB-A8D9-10B614837D25&p_id=P%20%20%20%20%205714&artist=Tina%
20Turner&locale=409&version=9.0.0.3075

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