Two (double) icons on Desktop

[Guest]

There are two icons for each item in my Desktop. All icons arrange themselves by type or whatever, but there is a second complete listing of icons after the first. Each double icon's properties report it is a link to the same file. If I delete either icon the icon and its file are deleted but the double icon remains and of course when I double-click it, a file not found error message results. This happened when I used Tweak-XP to change the location of my user Desktop folders to ...\All Users\Desktop. It worked well for the first user I changed. I made the change for the second and then moved all the files from ...\user2\Desktop to ...\All Users\Desktop. No change was apparent then, but when I logged back on -- double icons. Tweak XP showed the icon cache size a zero so I changed it to 512k without result. I checked the ...\user2\Desktop directory and it is empty. I checked the shell folder setting in the Registry and it is set to ...\All Users\Desktop. I deleted the pagefile without result. I will try a disk check and update this posting.

 

[Kelly]

Hmmm, interesting! That should of worked:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersi
on\Explorer\User Shell Folders

Change CommonDesktop from:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop

To:

CommonDesktop
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop

Keep us posted and good luck!

There are two icons for each item in my Desktop. All icons arrange

themselves by type or whatever, but there is a second complete listing of
icons after the first. Each double icon's properties report it is a link
to the same file. If I delete either icon the icon and its file are deleted
but the double icon remains and of course when I double-click it, a file not
found error message results. This happened when I used Tweak-XP to change
the location of my user Desktop folders to ...\All Users\Desktop. It worked
well for the first user I changed. I made the change for the second and
then moved all the files from ...\user2\Desktop to ...\All Users\Desktop.
No change was apparent then, but when I logged back on -- double icons.
Tweak XP showed the icon cache size a zero so I changed it to 512k without
result. I checked the ...\user2\Desktop directory and it is empty. I
checked the shell folder setting in the Registry and it is set to ...\All
Users\Desktop. I deleted the pagefile without result. I will try a disk
check and update this posting.