What is the folder's name? Is it one you originally created, one after a
program install, or system folder?
Robert Firth
http://www.winvistainfo.org
"Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> wrote in message
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> There's a folder on my desktop which I've deleted about thirty times now.
>
> After I deleted it, 15 to 20 minutes later, it reappears. I've watched it
> pop up on the screen several times.
>
> I suspect the following has something to do with it, but I can't figure
> out how.
>
> I replaced my motherboard, CPU and RAM. When I started up Vista it went
> into a long series of discovering the new parts and getting itself set up
> to handle them. Took about a half hour. While this was going on I was
> looking over the desk top and noticed this folder I'd forgotten to delete
> a few days ago. I'd stuck it in the corner and just forgot about it. So,
> I dragged it to the Recycle Bin and it disappeared, as it should have. I
> then left the machine to finish it's updates, and restarted when it was
> done.
>
> When the machine came back up, the folder was back on the desktop. My
> first thought was that the delete hadn't worked because it was busy with
> other things, so I just dragged it to the Recycle Bin again and it
> disappeared again.
>
> A bit later, I noticed it was back again.
>
> If I leave it alone, no others appear. It's not creating one every twenty
> minutes. But if I delete it, it reappears within twenty minutes.
>
> Ideas?
>
> - Bill
>