Stoo,
1 Are you really telling me that these folders
are direct subfolders of C:\Users [rather than of C:\Users\Stoo]? I really hope that was a misunderstanding.
2 The Registry diagrams have already answered the main questions for me anyway but
is not what I meant to suggest you do. I mention this for your future reference because I can now see that my previous explanation was not quite what I had intended. Click in a blank area of the File explorer address bar not on any of the text currently showing [off to the right, say, as there's always blank space there] and you'll see what happens - it can be very useful.
This changes to thereby confirming the real folder path and allowing you to copy the path to avoid typos.
3 As you suspected, you 'relocated' your Documents folder to C:\Users. The fix is easy but you should move files around manually to get them where you want to ensure they do not go missing during the fix.
3.1 In C:\Users\Stoo create a subfolder C:\Users\Stoo\Documents
3.2 Move around those of your own current subfolders of C:\Users\Stoo that you want within C:\Users\Stoo\Documents- Do not move any folders the system or an application created such as that Edge backups one or the NCH one.
- So you are likely to end up with C:\Users\Stoo\Documents\Native Instruments and others
- Double-check what you've done. You cannot rely on Windows moving anything for you.
3.3 Now click in a blank area of the File explorer address bar to show C:\Users\Stoo\Documents then right-click Copy to get the path into the Clipboard.
3.4 Run Regedit again & go to User shell folders again
Code:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
3.5 Double-click on the entry Personal [which means Documents] and a dialog box will open up into which you can paste C:\Users\Stoo\Documents. Then click OK.
3.6 Job done.
4 I can also see that your Pictures folder & Desktop are in your OneDrive folders. You can adopt the same approach to them- create the folder you do want [such as C:\Users\Stoo\Desktop]
- move everything to where you want it [again assuming that anything you do not put where you want it will get lost in the transition]
- Paste that path into the
User shell folders entry for Desktop.
- Pictures is slightly different. Paste the new path into the
User shell folders entry for My pictures and also into that one second from the top
QEFD,
Denis