Office does not rename the user's My documents folder. WindowsXP has logic
which will change the apparent title of the folder in Explorer view when
you're logged in via a different account.

So, if for instance, I log into my computer using my name (Eric) and I
browse to my friend's personal folder C:\documents and settings\irfaan\, it
appears that this folder contains a folder "Irfaan's documents".

However, looking at the same path in DOS shows that the folder name is
really "C:\documents and settings\irfaan\My Documents" even though Explorer
shows otherwise.

When you click on the "Irfaan's documents" folder in the Explorer view and
then look at the address line, you'll see the correct (C:\documents and
settings\irfaan\My Documents) path.

I'm 99% sure this is a convenience feature of Windows, affects the display
only, and will not affect any scripts or other commands. You should ask in
a Windows newsgroup for more info.

Thanks,

Eric Lawrence
Program Manager
Assistance and Worldwide Services

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


"Terry" wrote in message
...
I support an Active Directory with a mixture of W2K and XP Pro
workstations.
We use Roaming profiles and Group Policies to minimize the amount of
roaming
profile that is copied to the network. Group Policy provides for an
'exclude
directories in roaming profile', so I added to the default, "My Documents"
and My Documents\My Pictures". This has worked fine with W2K and Office
2000. Now I find that with my XP Pro and Office 2003 PC's, the directory
gets renamed as username's Documents, both in the local copy and the
network
copy of the roaming profile (if network logon ID is abc, then the
directory
is called abc's Documents).

Effectively that breaks my ability to support and minimize the size of the
network copy of the roaming profile as I cannot prevent the "username's
Documents" folder duplicating on the network copy of the roaming profile.

I also spotted that W2K can work with this newly renamed document folder,
believes it is "My Documents" and will remove it (inline with Group
Policy)
if a XP user logs on and off a W2K PC.

I don't want to use redirection, or offline folders, or change anything. I
just want Office 2003 to stop renaming the folder. I know it's Office 2003
doing this as a check proved it. Microsoft's knowledgebase doesn't seem to
have anything on this (bloody difficult to find most things, unless you
are
bang on with a keyword!).

Terry Robb
New Zealand