Help with the "This PC" section of the operating system

[Andylxn]

I was wondering why this would appear like this. Every single time a file is added to one of these. The file pops up on my desktop. I was wondering if theres any way to revert this

[Ashleyyyy]

i've never seen that before.. has that always been like this?

[Andylxn]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

i've never seen that before.. has that always been like this?

I tried moving these files to my hard drive instead of my ssd. But i wasn't have to get it to work so i moved it back to its original spot but clicking restore default for all of them but its been like that since than. 

[Ashleyyyy]

Just now, Andylxn said:

I tried moving these files to my hard drive instead of my ssd. But i wasn't have to get it to work so i moved it back to its original spot but clicking restore default for all of them but its been like that since than. 

i don't know how to fix it... maybe someone more familiar with Windows than me can help...

[NumLock21]

Try restoring to its default location under your username

[Andylxn]

5 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Try restoring to its default location under your username

 

[NumLock21]

2 minutes ago, Andylxn said:

 

Where is your current location?

[Andylxn]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

Where is your current location?

C:\Users\Andy\Video <- every single one of them has that

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, Andylxn said:

C:\Users\Andy\Video <- every single one of them has that

So if you click on any of the "links" folder and look at its location, it says C:\Users\Andy\...?

[Andylxn]

1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

So if you click on any of the "links" folder and look at its location, it says C:\Users\Andy\...?

Yeah all of them have that but all of them has labeled as video

[NumLock21]

3 minutes ago, Andylxn said:

Yeah all of them have that but all of them has labeled as video

So instead of documents, desktop, pictures, etc where the correct path should be C:\Users\Andy\Desktop, documents, picture, etc.

Everything all just says C:\Users\Andy\Videos?

 

Try this fix

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2936105/operation-to-change-a-personal-folder-location-fails-in-windows

Manually copy your data to your other drive before trying that fix.

[Andylxn]

21 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

So instead of documents, desktop, pictures, etc where the correct path should be C:\Users\Andy\Desktop, documents, picture, etc.

Everything all just says C:\Users\Andy\Videos?

 

Try this fix

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2936105/operation-to-change-a-personal-folder-location-fails-in-windows

Manually copy your data to your other drive before trying that fix.

Whenever i try to change any one of them, all of them changes

[NumLock21]

2 minutes ago, Andylxn said:

Whenever i try to change any one of them, all of them changes

Have you try the registry fix?

[Andylxn]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

Have you try the registry fix?

Yeah and i restarted my pc but it didn't work

[NumLock21]

Just now, Andylxn said:

Yeah and i restarted my pc but it didn't work

Looks like something got corrupted. Backup your data, then create new user and copy everything over.

[Andylxn]

1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

Looks like something got corrupted. Backup your data, then create new user and copy everything over.

This is weird right

[NumLock21]

2 minutes ago, Andylxn said:

This is weird right

It's most likely caused by when you're moving it back to its default location. Backup your data first, then create a new user and copy the files over to the new account.

Or you can try system restore to before this happens and see if that works.