Does my question and its answer (given by me) deserve downvotes

Question

Today I asked a question

• https://superuser.com/questions/577205/refresh-needed-each-time-after-changing-default-desktop-location/577291

Later on I found the answer & I posted the answer it thinking it might be helpful for other users. After which both my question and answer starts receiving down votes.

Is it wrong to ask such type of question/answer or not? Before you reply I want to clear following points.

For those who thinks the question is not good, here is a similar up voted question at - Can you change the location of the Desktop folder in Windows?

For those who think the answer was written in a poor format, I want to mention that my English is not good, so they can just pointed out the poor format to me so that I can try editing the answer.

Seriously, I really hate when I get down votes without a good reason.

Answer 1

Downvotes happen. Its a fact of life, and the least one can do is try to get used to it. Complaining about it can be counterproductive at times. Its not personal

You might want to reconsider what you're asking. Ask not why you got downvoted. Ask... how you could turn up the awesomeness of your question up to 11.

We have a clear problem (which in this case, you could probably replicate easily). You have a few possible solutions - logging in and out, and rebooting. Why not test it again, and improve on that answer? Inquire more - note that logging in and out resets environmental variables, and re-booting reloads the hive. Do some research (the answer should be pretty obvious from the clues I've given) and post a better answer.

That should turn your answer from an unloved sad urchin into the prom queen.

Answer 2

Self-answers are explicitly and strongly encouraged! This has been explained in detail in the blog post Encyclopedia Stack Exchange.

Generally, when you write an answer to your own question, you don't have to pretend like you're answering someone else's question.

For example, you can simply write:

I neglected to reboot after I changed the registry value. Rebooting resolved the issue.

That is sufficient and perfectly acceptable.

Answer 3

There are two parts to this and I'll address each briefly.

First the Question is asking to do something that isn't recommended

The reason for the down votes on the question is that you're asking how to do something that really shouldn't be done, and isn't supported by the software vendor.

Microsoft's own documentation explains that while its possible moving system folders like your desktop to another partition can cause weird behavior to happen. The registry keys exist because every setting in Windows requires a registry key. You can move the installation location of Windows Store application that doesn't mean there are not major problems that surface by doing so. – Ramhound 2 hours ago

Questions like this are going to be down voted simply because as a community we don't recommend doing things like this as they tend to lead to unintended and unwanted behaviors later on.

Your answer is of poor quality, and not because of your 'lack of English'

We understand that Stack Exchange is an international arena, and we're pretty lenient on grammatical, spelling or other English errors. What your answer is lacking is an actual solution. You say "it might be..." and "try this..." when it's your own question/answer you should be able to be a bit more authoritative than that.