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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 a...
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
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