missing My Documents shortcut in the My Computer window

one user profile one a Windows XP Home Edition sp 3 is missing the My
Documents shortcut in the My computer window the Shared Documents folder is
there but not the user's My Documents folder is not it is still on the
hardrive and i can acess it from the start menu or from Documents and
Settings but the usual shortcut is missing It only affects one user the
others are fine have tried every trick I can think of and have searched
Microsofts site for any knowege articals ect. found one that was a registry
fix for something like this but it didn't work I am the administrator n had
the appropriate permissions to modify the registry but the fix didn't work
n e one have n e sugestins think it might have been some hidden settings I
might have overlooked?

On Aug 19, 10:57 pm, e424 <e... DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> one user profile one a Windows XP Home Edition sp 3 is missing the My
> Documents shortcut in the My computer window the Shared Documents folder is
> there but not the user's My Documents folder is not it is still on the
> hardrive and i can acess it from the start menu or from Documents and
> Settings but the usual shortcut is missing It only affects one user the
> others are fine have tried every trick I can think of and have searched
> Microsofts site for any knowege articals ect. found one that was a registry
> fix for something like this but it didn't work I am the administrator n had
> the appropriate permissions to modify the registry but the fix didn't work
> n e one have n e sugestins think it might have been some hidden settings I
> might have overlooked?

When you are at "Documents and Settings", did you right click on "My
Documents" folder and then "send to" to create a desktop shortcut?