“My” Folders?!?

Acrobat and a number of other software applications are really starting to annoy me with their behaviour. Every time I start these applications, they decide to create a “My” folder of their own under “My Documents”. Acrobat, for example, creates a “My eBooks” folder.

Worst. “Feature”. Ever.

For one thing, I don’t own any e-books and frankly, I never intend to – at least, not until someone creates an electronic book with flexible screens that recreate the look and feel of a paper book, and that stores in its spine a copy of every book ever created. And I don’t need a “My Received Files” directory – I know where to put files I receive over MSN Messenger.

While I understand that most people are disorganized and this feature may be a simple way of enabling the user to find their files, I am not most people. So listen up, developers: stop implementing automatic folder creation! If you need to satisfy your own demented need to see your application name in 10-point Arial font in Windows Explorer, do it on someone else’s dime. Or at least provide some way to turn this “feature” off.