On Sep 3, 2:05*am, "ju.c" <bibidybubidyb...@mailnator.com> wrote:
> You must have a program that has that folder in its settings as a destination path,
> therefore it is recreated at start-up.
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> If you can't think of the program that stored the location you could thensearch the
> Registry and change the path to the Pictures folder, or delete it.
>
> ju.c
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> "John John (MVP)" <audetw...@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in messagenews:g9jj3r$u9a$(E-Mail Removed)...
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> >magmikewrote:
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> >> On Sep 1, 9:04 am, "Bruce Hagen" <Nos...@mymail.invalid> wrote:
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> >>>"magmike" <magmi...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> >>>news:d3dfae8d-1cc5-4619-9cdc-(E-Mail Removed)....
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> >>>>I have a folder on my desktop that just had two pictures in it, that
> >>>>once no longer needed, I deleted. However, whenever I restart, the
> >>>>folder with pictures inside reappears!
>
> >>>>I've moved them to other folders, and again - it reappears after a
> >>>>restart. I even deleted the folder with a supposed 'forever eraser'
> >>>>program that supposedly overwrites the data a thousand billion times -
> >>>>but, yes, you guessed it - it still reappears after a restart.
>
> >>>>Anybody know the cure for this and could explain why this is
> >>>>happening?
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> >>>>Thanks in advance!
>
> >>>>magmike
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> >>>Try this.
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> >>>Unlocker:http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
> >>>--
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> >>> * * * * * * * * Bruce Hagen
> >>> * * * *MS-MVP Outlook Express
> >>> * * * * * * Imperial Beach, CA
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> >> I wish the unlocker program had worked - but it didn't! I think this
> >> program is to unlock files that are locked because they are in use by
> >> some process still running. However, that is not the case here. My
> >> computer allows me to delete it. It just reappears after a start-up.
>
> >> When I ran the unlocker, it told me it wasn't locked, but did give me
> >> an option to delete the file and it did. But once again, after restart
> >> - there it was again! I'm starting to think my computer is haunted.
>
> > Does this happen if you logon as a different user? *This is most likely user specific,
> > you should be able to use a machine startup script to start FileMon or Process Monitor
> > before you log on and then look at the log file to see which process created the folder.
> > Obviously a process is creating the folder when Windows starts or when you log on, using
> > a tools like Filemon along with Autoruns may uncover the culprit.
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> > John- Hide quoted text -
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This may work - I think I'll have to get with my administrator to be
able to run the filemon. However, I did search the registry for the
folder and filenames, and was not able to find anything other than an
MRU listing. I also did a painfully long search of all files
"containing" the folder and file names and came up with nothing. I
have uninstalled the program the files were initially downloaded with
(cell phone sync software) and that has not helped either. For the
meantime, I have created a script that deletes them every time I log
on to windows, just because. But i'll try again soon to see if I can
do away with the script and be done with this thing for good.
Thanks for your help.
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