Talk:My Documents

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Erhmm... am I completely wrong about this, but isn't the My Documents folder "missing" in Windows 95? Every W95 system I've installed is missing it, anyways. IIRC, a complete installation of Office 97 (not Office 95) on a W95 machine created the familiar system folder. It was standard in Windows 98 and onwards, wasn't it? Not even the borked Windows 96 -- that never got further than Beta -- had it. There was, however, a semi-official "update" which installed a special My Documents folder on a W95 system, IIRC. It was merely an icon and a clever registry hack, wasn't it? Anyone? Tirolion 11:03, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, Windows 98 was the first to incorperate My Documents into the operating system. Office 97 did this as well with the addition of a registry key if installed on Windows 95, but it was only recognized by Office programs. All other Windows programs, including the applets installed with the Windows 95 operating system, were otherwise unaware of it. 141.152.220.251 04:15, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My Briefcase

Anyone else remember this folder in the Windows95 era? Might want to add it to the list.

[edit] Which operating systems

In the opening paragraph, it says "On Microsoft Windows operating systems"; however, my question is which operating systems? Certainly this is in XP, but not before 95, or after Vista. I can't recall about 98, Me, NT. Whoever is knowledgeable about this, please specify this in the first paragraph, because certainly it is a dated statement.+mwtoews 21:01, 17 February 2007 (UTC)