desktop.ini files have magically appeared on my Desktop!
-
From what I have gathered digging around the internets, changes to the way for File Explorer to deal with folders are stored here. Why it is not stored somewhere in the Windows dir, I have no idea. Anyway, it is possible that these file could be assisting some malware? If they are good, can I combine the contents? I don't mind having a singleton file, but already I've got 2 of them. One file has this: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21799 The other has this: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21769 IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-183 Any ideas? thanx
-
From what I have gathered digging around the internets, changes to the way for File Explorer to deal with folders are stored here. Why it is not stored somewhere in the Windows dir, I have no idea. Anyway, it is possible that these file could be assisting some malware? If they are good, can I combine the contents? I don't mind having a singleton file, but already I've got 2 of them. One file has this: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21799 The other has this: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21769 IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-183 Any ideas? thanx
They are normal. You must have unset the option: Hide protected operating system files... You can reach this via (from explorer) View, Options, only option, View tab and scroll down a bit and check the option and OK. They'll go away again.
-
From what I have gathered digging around the internets, changes to the way for File Explorer to deal with folders are stored here. Why it is not stored somewhere in the Windows dir, I have no idea. Anyway, it is possible that these file could be assisting some malware? If they are good, can I combine the contents? I don't mind having a singleton file, but already I've got 2 of them. One file has this: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21799 The other has this: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21769 IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-183 Any ideas? thanx
what he said :), I get them as well, but then, I always have all of my files shown. Big Boy Warranty and all....
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
-
From what I have gathered digging around the internets, changes to the way for File Explorer to deal with folders are stored here. Why it is not stored somewhere in the Windows dir, I have no idea. Anyway, it is possible that these file could be assisting some malware? If they are good, can I combine the contents? I don't mind having a singleton file, but already I've got 2 of them. One file has this: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21799 The other has this: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21769 IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-183 Any ideas? thanx
I have show all files always turned on (because to do otherwise is annoying) and these content.ie5 files show up everywhere you can quietly delete them, does no harm at all. Over time they slowly come back, just delete again. (If you manually sort the start menu in a particular way that's apparently stored in here too, but I'm happy with the default sort-by-name so I remove those files too.) The one place I do leave this is: ...\temporary internet files\desktop.ini contents of that desktop.ini are:
[.ShellClassInfo]
-UICLSID={7BD29E00-76C1-11CF-9DD0-00A0C9034933}and that stops windows explorer hiding the content.ie5 and it's sub folders. (So once in a while I can clean out those too.)
Sin tack the any key okay
-
From what I have gathered digging around the internets, changes to the way for File Explorer to deal with folders are stored here. Why it is not stored somewhere in the Windows dir, I have no idea. Anyway, it is possible that these file could be assisting some malware? If they are good, can I combine the contents? I don't mind having a singleton file, but already I've got 2 of them. One file has this: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21799 The other has this: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21769 IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-183 Any ideas? thanx
Just to add, you cannot combine their contents, every "desktop.ini" refers to its parent folder. For example if you change the folder icons on some folders you'll get a "desktop.ini" file in each of those folders and the files content will contain an information only for their parent folder.
-
Just to add, you cannot combine their contents, every "desktop.ini" refers to its parent folder. For example if you change the folder icons on some folders you'll get a "desktop.ini" file in each of those folders and the files content will contain an information only for their parent folder.
Just to clarify Mario's answer: The reason you're seeing 2 of these files on your desktop is that there's a version in your desktop folder under your own user profile (c:\users\YourName\desktop), and the other is from the desktop folder under the public user profile (c:\users\public\desktop). What you have on your desktop is the combined content of both desktop folders. So because of this, despite all appearances, it's not violating the "files in a given folder must be uniquely named" rule.