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Is it a shell-type "special" folder like Music, or Pictures? Or is it one
that some program created? Either way, it appears that Explorer or a
program is seeing that folder path in the registry, as one necessary to
perform a function, and creates the folder if it doesn't exist. Do you have
a program that needs a folder in a certain location in order to run?
Apparently the program's default location is your Desktop.

"Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> wrote in message
news:Odd%23HJc2HHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> 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
>