XP Home - How "My Documents" are filed.

[TryingToUnderstand]

I have a new Dell desktop computer - XP Home.

The "My Documents" folder shows up in three places. Any attempt to remove one of them, removes the others. I only want ONE such folder.
And, I don't want "Guests" to be able to read "My Documents".

The three places are:
Start - right click - Explore
1) right under the Desktop - in line with "My Computer" & Local Disk (c:)
2) under Local Disk (c:) - Documents and Settings - myname - "My Documents" (this is the one I want to keep)
3)at the end of the "My Computer" lists there is another copy "myname Documents." This is the same column as the first one.

So - how can I get rid of two of these?

Many thanks for your help! I really appreciate it.

[quaxo]

These folders all lead to the same destination:

C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents

Removing one will remove them all.

When another user or guest user is on, they will not be able to view the files under your username unless they have administrator privileges.

[TryingToUnderstand]

Thanks!
I see that they can't be seen from the Guest now. It's the items on my C drive that can, so I'll move them.

Sure seems like a waste of disk space to have my biggest set of files on there three times. OH - I get it -- They all POINT to the one directory -- they aren't duplicated. That makes me feel better.

Really appreciate your clarifying all this for me.

[quaxo]

Yeah, they're all in that one location under 'C:\Documents and Settings'. The files are not duplicated, the folder is just listed in those three places.

If another user logs on, that is replaced with his/her own documents folder and yours are tucked away until you log back on.

[soybean]

If you want to remove the link to My Documents from your Desktop, do this.  Right click on an empty space in your Desktop and select Properties, select the Desktop tab, click on the Customize Desktop button at the bottom of that panel, and uncheck the box for My Documents.