GUIDs in User Shell Folders Registry Key

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I've been poking around the registry and noticed that I have a few entries under HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders that were GUIDs that did not correspond to any Known Folder IDs. They're mapped to standard shell folders like:Pictures {0DDD015D-B06C-45D5-8C4C-F59713854639}, Music {A0C69A99-21C8-4671-8703-7934162FCF1D} and Documents {F42EE2D3-909F-4907-8871-4C22FC0BF756} but are notable in that there also exist named entries (My Pictures, My Music, Personal) with the same mapping. There are other GUID values but they're all mapped to folders that otherw

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