{"id":1863,"date":"2014-02-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2014\/02\/05\/how-do-i-prevent-folders-like-my-pictures-from-being-recreated\/"},"modified":"2014-02-05T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T07:00:00","slug":"how-do-i-prevent-folders-like-my-pictures-from-being-recreated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20140205-00\/?p=1863","title":{"rendered":"How do I prevent folders like My Pictures from being recreated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another converse of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2014\/04\/23\/10519589.aspx\"> <i>How do I programmatically create folders like My Pictures if they were manually deleted?<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/11\/23\/268486.aspx\"> <i>Why do folders like &#8220;My Pictures&#8221; come back after I delete them?<\/i><\/a> is <i>How do I prevent folders like My Pictures from being recreated?<\/i>\n Starting in Windows&nbsp;7, there is a group policy called <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd744697(v=WS.10).aspx#WS_DisableKnownFolders\"> <i>Disable Known Folders<\/i><\/a> which lets you specify a list of known folders which should be disabled.\n If somebody tries to create a known folder programmatically, the call will fail with <code>ERROR_ACCESS_DISABLED_BY_POLICY<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p> Note that this policy only blocks creation of the folder. If the folder already exists, then the policy has no effect. (You&#8217;re locking the door after the horse has bolted.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another converse of How do I programmatically create folders like My Pictures if they were manually deleted? and Why do folders like &#8220;My Pictures&#8221; come back after I delete them? is How do I prevent folders like My Pictures from being recreated? Starting in Windows&nbsp;7, there is a group policy called Disable Known Folders which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Another converse of How do I programmatically create folders like My Pictures if they were manually deleted? and Why do folders like &#8220;My Pictures&#8221; come back after I delete them? is How do I prevent folders like My Pictures from being recreated? Starting in Windows&nbsp;7, there is a group policy called Disable Known Folders which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}