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Re: Folder won't stay deleted
"dean-dean" <dean-dean@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:%23TyFMCe2HHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Is it a shell-type "special" folder like Music, or Pictures?
> Or is it one that some program created?
No. I created it with Right Click -> New -> Folder and renamed it to "Anne
Frank", put sound files in it for a show, deleted the sound files, then
(days later) deleted the folder.
> 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.
That's how I see it, but I can't figure out what could, first, think it
needs this then, second, run silently every twenty minutes.
> Do you have a program that needs a folder in a certain location
> in order to run?
Several, but not this folder in this location. At least not that I know of.
> Apparently the program's default location is your Desktop.
I agree. I need some way to track it down.
- Bill
> "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
>>
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