I had a Folder Redirection group policy applied to all users in the domain. I did not want it any more so I first went to edit group policy edit and opened desktop and mydocuments property and changed these to not " configured". Then I disabled Folder Redirection GP in GP management console. used gpupdate/force and rebooted the machine. it took effect in each machine but one. one win xp machine still keeps redirecting folders even when there is no GP to do it. Then I deleted the GP from the server and force updated GP and rebooted. No luck ! Any ideas why redirection GP could be sticking up in just one machine. where are GP registries ? may be something got stuck there.