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by sawan gupta

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I have customized my Start Menu to show My Computer as a Menu rather than a link.
Now the problem is that I have 10 Users on My system with 5 Administrators.
And the My Computer Menu shows 10 times "My Documents" but I would like to have it as "username's Documents". It will reduce the confusion when i am seeing a particular users documents.
But when I open My Computer; it shows them normally as "username's Documents".

How do I make this change in the Start Menu>My Computer Menu?

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by deadly ernest

Not sure exactly wht you want to do here, but if you go 'Start' >> 'Settings' >> 'Taskbar and Start Menu' >> 'Start menu' tab >> 'Customise' for which ever start menu you use (I am classical) >> 'Advanced' button. This will open all the start menu profiles in a explorer window.

Anything that is entered under the 'All User' Profile will show up for everyone who logs in, anything under the 'Default User' will automatically become part of any new User profile that is created, and anything under an individual user's profile will only show for that user when they are logged on.

Thus anything that you want everyone to have and not be able to get away from should be placed in the appropriate section of the 'All Users' profile.

Anythingyou want them to have but can remove from their profile should go in the 'Default Profile' and they get it when created and can remove it if they want.

Anything you want for you alone should go in your specific user profile.

It sounds that your customisation may have been done in the 'All User' or 'Default User', just clean them up and you should be right.

by sawan gupta

I am the Administrator user and the problem is that the My Computer Link in start Menu doesn't shows the My Document Icon Properly. For e.g.

My Computer -->A:
My Computer -->C:
My Computer -->D:
My Computer -->Documents
My Computer -->My Documents
My Computer -->My Documents
My Computer -->My Documents

I think now it is quite clear. that how do i distinguish between different My Documents which are of different users.
It could be better if diplayed as My Computer --> Username's documents

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