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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Mustaine on March 24, 2009, 09:51:27 PM
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OK I am at my wit's end. I have googled this and tried 100's of things and I don't know where to turn... hoping someone here may help
Windows XP pro SP 3, all updates to date
Dell vostro laptop
checked with nod32, spybot, adaware, certified clean.
No new programs installed.
I am an administrator
the other night I was doing some work, created a new folder on my desktop called of course "new folder" I put a zip file in there, extracted it, then after working with the files deleted the contents with a shift-delete. during the course of all this I made another "new folder" on the desktop also, and named it differently. I then shift-deleted everything I worked with and went to bed.
today upon startup the "new folder" was recreated on my desktop, empty, even of hidden and system files, but with a grayed read only setting (meaning something below in the directory was set to read only).
if I delete this folder and close the laptop when I reopen and log in it creates itself again.
If I rename the folder the newly named folder stays in place and another "new folder" is created.
If I delete the renamed folder only "new folder" is recreated
If I delete it and reboot logging is as either me or administrator it recreates itself (in c:\documents and settings\Dave\desktop directory)
I have deleted it, then checked the registry, I have also don a full error check on restart.
It does NOT create itself booting in safe mode, but as soon as I log in regular it comes back.
does anyone have a suggestion to removing this anomaly? ? ? ? ? PLEASE? :mad: :furious :mad: :furious :furious :furious
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Have you tried deleting the extracted files and then deleting the folder?
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Try opening windows explorer. Drag the folder onto your C drive then re-boot then delete it off the C drive.
Not sure if this will work but I'd give it a try.
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seems like your Desktop.ini file is not updating and is replacing the folder. Try from there then delete the folder
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Have you tried deleting the extracted files and then deleting the folder?
I did
"I then shift-deleted everything I worked with and went to bed."
read the whole post, I tried all the usual stuff.
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Holy hell that was a PAIN.
I used M$ sysinternals tool filemon running on startup in the background with admin rights to catch...
My bluetooth service checking for last received file location, because I beamed a pic from my phone to the laptop the other day, and put it in that "new folder" I made.
What a PITA.
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mmm pitas
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Bluetooth in general tends to be bad news.