Preventing Creation Of My Videos, My Music Folders

[dickl42@ktc.com]

Every time I use any of the modules in EMC7, folders named My Music, My Videos, and sometimes My Photos are created. Surely in an organization as big as Roxio there must have been a few programmers smart enought to realize that not everyone wanted these useless folders cluttering up the Windows Explorer. Is there a way to prevent their creation?

 

Thank You.

Richard Lockwood

[grandpabruce]

Every time I use any of the modules in EMC7, folders named My Music, My Videos, and sometimes My Photos are created. Surely in an organization as big as Roxio there must have been a few programmers smart enought to realize that not everyone wanted these useless folders cluttering up the Windows Explorer. Is there a way to prevent their creation?

 

Thank You.

Richard Lockwood

 

 

I believe that that is actually a function of XP. Those folders are there already. Surely, you knew that.

[Larry]

Every time I use any of the modules in EMC7, folders named My Music, My Videos, and sometimes My Photos are created. Surely in an organization as big as Roxio there must have been a few programmers smart enought to realize that not everyone wanted these useless folders cluttering up the Windows Explorer. Is there a way to prevent their creation?

 

Thank You.

Richard Lockwood

As stated, those are standard default Windows folders and exist when you install the operating system. Programs being installed that use those as default path settings is normal these days.

 

In pretty much each module in the suite, like PhotoSuite, Creator Classic, and so on, there are folder options for where things are defaulting to. Saving, temp areas, and so on. Those are installed with the typical Windows paths that are usually there. So if you rename, move, or delete them, they are going to be re-created by the program because they are required by the settings. The only way around it, is to go into each module, change all the path settings to what you want them to be, then get rid of them. That is how users can change the 'clutter' if they want caused by Microsoft (in your case at least).