Saturday, May 16, 2009

x:\desktop refers to a location that is unavailable

If you get this error (I got it in Internet Explorer) then you probably had My Documents pointing to x: drive and moved the files to somewhere else (by right-clicking My Documents, selecting Properties and clicking Move).

One of the registry settings wasn't updated by the move.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

This probably still has a value of x:\desktop. Change it to %USERPROFILE%\Desktop

I'm using Windows XP Pro SP2, I have no idea which other OS's & versions are affected.