Deleted public documents folder

[Brian]

Hi,
Somehow during the process of moving the public document folder to a new partition I managed to delete it. Supid I know, especially when I ignored a "this can't be undone message". Simply copying one of the other public folders and renaming it does not create a folder with the same characteristics, in particular no location tab in the properties box. Does anyone know how to re-create a proper "public document" folder?

Brian

[Steve]

Hi Brian,
sorry for not getting back to you earlier...

The first thing to do is to create a new folder you want as your public folder.

Then follow the steps here Move the Public Folder in Windows Vista :: the How-To Geek to recreate the Public Key in the Registry.

Hope this helps, if you have any problems please get back to us,

regards

Steve

[Brian]

Steve,
Thanks for suggestion. The link you suggested seemed to be about moving rather than re-creating a new folder which has a location tab characteristic. However, you also attached older similar threads and one from Chad Harris had a solution which has worked - use my last system restore point! I've learned a valuable lesson here.
regards
brian

[Steve]

Thats great Brian,

glad you got sorted.

regards

Steve