Problem with Documents shortcut

Okay, so when I click on the Documents shortcut on me start menu, nothing happens, nothing at all. When I click on properties to see if it is pointing to the right location and such this is what i see...

I can't click on location or else i would just do it that way the only thing I can type into is the name box, which goes away after I click on properties again. I have no idea why this happened. I didnt delete documents its still there. Also I can't create a shorcut and put it into the start menu either. Just in case you dont know what documents shortcut i am talking about its this one...


Thanks for any help in advance.

 

you have a corrupted registry or corrupted system
either you try to fix it with a registry fix program or you re-install your OS

 

Yep, concurring with a repair!

cheers ...

 

Is you My Document folder still there?

That is, if you go through the whole C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents, can you find it?

If you can, couldn't you I suppose just copy the path into the shortcut, click apply and have everything be fine?

 

You Know it's funny, but I just ran into the same problem an hour ago. My mouse slipped and I accidentally copied the Documents Folder into Downloads, then I deleted it not knowing that it hadn't actually physically moved the files. I checked the recycle bin and the folder wasn't there. Luckily I managed to recover most of my files but now I have no documents folder and I want it back.

 

Nope it wont let me type anything in at all. Also my Documents are still there just that particular shortcut doesnt work.

 

I've been researching and I've seen people say to create a new user folder and then copy or move the files from the old one to the new one, but what I want to know is if there isn't away to get it back without doing so.

Update. Okay so I have no idea but it's back. Try typing "shell ersonal" without the quotation marks into the start search box and see what happens. I realize that a smiley face is coming up. Its supposed to be ": personal" but it comes out as the smiley because you have to type it with no spaces.

 

If you still have the restore partition on your hard drive, try a system restore to a few days ago. That should not delete any documents, but might revert the registry to a time when it was working.

 

Okay well today a Documents shortcut appeared on my desktop. Don't know how or why but I don't care its back and everything works. I did have to move everything from my old Documents to my new one but now everything is fixed. Thanks for the suggestions everyone. But I think I'm good now.

 

Yea, it's like Vista has a mind of it's own.

 

It really does lol