Renaming My Computer and My Documents

[abelard]

I rename these files over and over again, either in the Properties
window or in the Explorer window or on the desktop. But the original
names always come back. Am I missing something. TIA

 

[Bill Foley]

My Computer and My Documents are not files, but names for your computer and
folder that you should keep most of your files in. What is it exactly that
you are trying to do?

 

[Jezebel]

None the less, the context menu has a 'Rename' option, which normally works.

 

[abelard]

I'm trying to rename My Documents "Pandora" and My Computer "Phoenix".
A triviality but nonethless. I use the Rename option and it holds for
a while and all of a sudden, the system reverts to My Computer and My
Documents again. Is this a no! no! ?

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Are we supposed to infer that your documents are a real can of worms and the
source of all your troubles?
And that you hope that your computer will restart every time that it crashes
and burns!
;-)

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Salut!
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Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
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[Bill Foley]

Not that I know of! I did change mine once from My Computer to "Bills
Computer" and it stayed until I got rid of it a couple of years later. My
best guess would be to post this message in one of the Windows NewsGroups
and maybe they might have an answer.

SORRY!

 

[Bill Foley]

You're a real funny Guy-Jean!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I had a different name for the equivalent of My Computer in Windows 3.1 but
haven't tried it in later versions. I know that it is possible to rename My
Documents accidentally (in Windows 2000) because I've had this happen (a
fluke where random unintentional keypresses/mouseclicks coincidentally were
the right ones for renaming it with a string of garbage). This did survive a
reboot and was propagated to all the shortcuts (including the one in the
Places Bar IIRC).

I'm wondering if you might have more luck changing the name in the
Properties, though that shouldn't do anything different than using Rename on
the shortcut menu.

 

[abelard]

If I didn't answer sooner Jean-Guy, it's not that I didn't understand
that you understood. It's just that I thought you had understood.

Ciao!