A 'Hidden' Hidden Folder

[Stampie]

Firstly I apologise for the long story but I feel you may understand more
with the whole picture...

I have recently built up 5 XP desktops using a multi-cast ghost image so all
images are the same, also all desktops are completely identical as they are
part of the same batch.

I have just recently had to stop setting up the users accounts after logging
on as the users for the computers as I've come across something I'm now
unable to solve.

The first users account was setup on the first computer, and worked exactly
as it should. The second and third made me step back and realise the
problem... The corporate wallpaper wasn't being displayed, nor the corporate
screensaver.

I checked and had a colleague double check the 2nd and 3rd users weren't in
a domain group to bypass the group policy, which they weren't and no other
groups were created on the computers which would do this locally.

I remembered something like this happening in the past and it was down to
the same issue as back then. The hidden folder in the root drive called
'desktop' where the image and screensaver file is not there. I have tried
creating a new folder there as a test called 'desktop' to overwrite it, but
the folder won't let me overwrite it, as the user with no admin rights or as
a domain or local administrator.

Here is the most mind-boggling part... it's meant to be a hidden folder
(which appeared as hidden and worked fine on the first desktop), however even
after setting it to show hidden files and folders and to show hidden system
files, it still doesn't appear.

I can't issue out these desktops without this working.

Any ideas of what is causing this?

 

[Pegasus [MVP]]

Firstly I apologise for the long story but I feel you may understand more
with the whole picture...

I have recently built up 5 XP desktops using a multi-cast ghost image so
all
images are the same, also all desktops are completely identical as they
are
part of the same batch.

I have just recently had to stop setting up the users accounts after
logging
on as the users for the computers as I've come across something I'm now
unable to solve.

The first users account was setup on the first computer, and worked
exactly
as it should. The second and third made me step back and realise the
problem... The corporate wallpaper wasn't being displayed, nor the
corporate
screensaver.

I checked and had a colleague double check the 2nd and 3rd users weren't
in
a domain group to bypass the group policy, which they weren't and no other
groups were created on the computers which would do this locally.

I remembered something like this happening in the past and it was down to
the same issue as back then. The hidden folder in the root drive called
'desktop' where the image and screensaver file is not there. I have tried
creating a new folder there as a test called 'desktop' to overwrite it,
but
the folder won't let me overwrite it, as the user with no admin rights or
as
a domain or local administrator.

Here is the most mind-boggling part... it's meant to be a hidden folder
(which appeared as hidden and worked fine on the first desktop), however
even
after setting it to show hidden files and folders and to show hidden
system
files, it still doesn't appear.

I can't issue out these desktops without this working.

Any ideas of what is causing this?

What do you see when you type these commands in a Command Prompt:

dir /a c:\Desktop
cacls c:\Desktop
cd /d c:\Desktop