Comments on: Documents and Settings in Vista and Windows 7

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:53:46 +0000

I transferred my old Windows XP “Documents and Settings folder” to my Windows Vista machine by simply doing a file dump of my XP machine to the Vista machine from an external drive. Based on the “last accessed date”, It appears that Vista is ignoring the old/XP Documents and Settings folder. And since Vista uses a different path than did XP, am I correct that I could/should delete the old XP Documents and settings folder without causing any problems for my Vista machine?

By: Nico

Nico — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:11:37 +0000

Hi!. Thanks for your valuable information about that folder. Today by accident i move a folder with 160Gb of files to the documts and settings folder and i was thinking all are lose because i can’t enter there, but again thanks to for your info, i recover all.

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By: WIZPS

WIZPS — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:58:39 +0000

thanks for the tip! It really helped

By: cx420ns

cx420ns — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:39:06 +0000

thank you so much!!!!

By: Chang, Hyuk-Soo

Chang, Hyuk-Soo — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:55:16 +0000

I appreciate your kindly explanation very much. It is very helpful for my job.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:55 +0000

it can really be any window, but push and let go. Holding it down doesn’t change anything.

the toolbar will show just above the organize, view, open etc toolbar that you see normally.

clicking off the window also makes it collapse.

By: Shelli

Shelli — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:47:56 +0000

okay. What window has to be opened when you press alt?

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By: David Lazarus

David Lazarus — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:35:32 +0000

I agree with Greg. they just seem to be changing for the sake of changing

By: Kraig

Kraig — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:59:07 +0000

You can get to documents and settings by taking ownership. you just need to make sure that you remove deny from all users to documents and settings.

By: Greg Muir

Greg Muir — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:04:12 +0000

Ugh. WHY do they have to keep changing things every version? Are they sadists or misanthropes?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:40:10 +0000

Luke, you’re right, but many software vendors refer to the explicit folder names.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:58:20 +0000

I guess the safest thing is to use environment variables then. I’m assuming Vista would probably expand variables such as:

%APPDATA%
%HOMEPATH%
%USERPROFILE%
%TEMP%

to their correct vista paths. Or am I wrong? I haven’t really had a chance to play around with Vista yet.