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Shorten path for "Documents"
We recently had new PCs installed. For some reason, when I click on "Documents" in File Explorer to goes to "C" blah, blah, blah. On the machine I did an in place upgrade as well as my two machines at home it goes directly to the documents folder. How would one fix the error?
- Hi,
about the in-place upgrade, which version did you upgrade from/to ?- Win7 Pro to Win10 Home. Pro offers no real advantages to us.
- Does the problem happen on new PCs or the ones you in-place upgraded?
if Pro edition has no advantage for you, you can use Home instead.
I don't know what configurations you made in Windows 7 that caused this issue, whether or not you moved personal folders such as documents, downloads etc. to a different drive prior to upgrade.
But you can back up your user data to a different drive, delete your user account and recreate it, this might fix the issue.
Or use one of the reset/recovery methods here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/recovery-options-in-windows-10-31ce2444-7de3-818c-d626-e3b5a3024da5
Well, here's a fine kettle of fish. I can't save any documents because the path exceeds 218 characters.
