This is bizarre. Look in the these keys in the Registry Editor:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Shell
Folders
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\User
Shell Folders
Is that Anne Frank folder listed as part of the path to any of your special
shell folders in the above keys?
Does the folder contain a hidden, system desktop.ini? A desktop.ini that may
contain the line:
LocalizedResourceName=Anne Frank
Any clues if you search the Registry for Anne Frank?
"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
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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
>>>
>>
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