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Old March 22nd 10, 04:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
R. C. White
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Default Windows 7 My user folder is invisible

Hi, Kevryl.

As Ken explained, MS has decided that there will be NO Win7 newsgroups - and
I'm as disappointed as Ken about this. :(

As to your C:\Users\Kevryl folder tree...

immediately under c:\users, but when I go to c: drive, I find only public
and
default,


Is this in Windows Explorer? What IS your username? Might it possibly
include "illegal" characters? It should not, of course, because Windows
should not let you create such a username in the first place, but strange
things happen sometimes.

In an elevated Command Prompt window, you should be able to use the Dir
command, held over from MS-DOS days when "folders" were Directories. (As
with any command here, just type Dir /? to see a mini-Help file listing the
switches and parameters available with this command.) Start with your
username:
Dir C:\kevryl /s/a

The /s and /a switches search all subfolders and list all files, even those
with Hidden, System or other attributes. If a file or folder named "kevryl"
is anywhere in Drive C: it should show up and you can read the full
pathname. (You could also search for "outlook.pst", of course.)

If that doesn't work, post back with details about what you did - step by
step - and what result you saw - verbatim; please don't paraphrase any error
message that might appear. Several other techniques are available to
fine-tune Dir searches.

I'm assuming of course that you are an Administrator and logged in as such.

RC
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"Kevryl" wrote in message
...
Hello all,

Somewhere there HAS to be a Windows 7 discussion group, but it doesn't
seem
to be listed anywhere in the Microsoft discussion groups tree. Someone in
here may be able to help or at least point me to a Win 7 discussion group.

I have just bought 2 identical machines with Win 7 installed. My user
account is there on both (libraries documents right click properties)
immediately under c:\users, but when I go to c: drive, I find only public
and
default, and when invited to "search in sub-folders" an unintelligibnle
mish-mash of files and folders appear, and still my own user folder is not
visible (even after playing with the alphabetical selection down arrow). I
have gone into folder options/view and selected "show hidden folders,
files
and drives" and even unticked "hide unprotected operating system files".
My
user account still wont appear so I can get into it and copy my
"outlook.pst"
file from the old machine into its rightful place on the new ones.

If anyone can help me with this issue, and how to get from this mish-mash
of
flattened out fiolders and files into a real directory structure I'd be
most
appreciative!