Hi Bill--
Try to get the file name and the process that may have it open:
Technet Sysinternals' Process Explorer
You can always boot into safe mode and right click the start button and open
explorer and find the file and try to delete it from there.
Also try:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...sExplorer.mspx http://www.theeldergeek.com/delete_undeletable_file.htm
DelinvFile: Delete Invalid Files and Folders
http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/index.htm
How do I delete an "undeletable" file?
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_undeletable_file.htm
Good luck,
CH
"Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> wrote in message
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> "dean-dean" <dean-dean@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>> 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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