An anomylous file on my desktop

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We recently migrated from NT4 to SBS 2003. We have W2K SP4 workstations.
After the upgrade I noticed I had a folder on the desktop that has no name,
can't be cut, copied or deleted: it just sits there.

What could it be?
 
Carl said:
We recently migrated from NT4 to SBS 2003. We have W2K SP4 workstations.
After the upgrade I noticed I had a folder on the desktop that has no name,
can't be cut, copied or deleted: it just sits there.

What could it be?
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Right-click on it and select "Properties". Tell us what it says
there.
 
There is no "Properties" selection. There is "Cut", "Create Shortcut" and
"Delete", none of which will preform the described functions.
 
Without seeing it I can only take a wild guess, but one guess is it's been
set under the namespace key in your registry. If you could open regedit and
export the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace and post the exported text.

Another thing to try is open a DOS prompt and do a dir command - see what it
says

Anyway I have to run but please let me know what you find.

nick
 
This is the exported entry for the registry file location:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
"Removal Message"="The Outlook Desktop icon provides special functionality
and we recommend that you do not remove it."
@=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{1f4de370-d627-11d1-ba4f-00a0c91eedba}]
@="Search Results - Computers"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}]
@=""
"Removal Message"="@mydocs.dll,-900"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{6357BCB6-B06E-11D6-82EF-00C04FA03755}]
"Removal Message"="The palmOne Quick Install icon will be removed from the
Windows desktop. You can still access palmOne Quick Install from the Start
Menu. To put the icon back, open palmOne Quick Install, go to Preferences,
and click on the Show Quick Install icon."

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]
@="Recycle Bin"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{e17d4fc0-5564-11d1-83f2-00a0c90dc849}]
@="Search Results"

Hope this helps.
 
But the Desktop namespace in the registry is for special folders though not
for unnamed files

If it was Outlook then the filename would be a '~' (tilde)

Crouchie1998
BA (HONS) MCP MCSE
 
Carl, do you see a Palm one Quick Install icon on your desktop? If so do you
have an Outlook icon? If you don't have one of those then that's what's
creating the folder so delete the appropriate clsid (long 32 bit number thats
a sub key of Namespace).

Let me know if you need any help with this.

Thanks,

Nick Staff

Carl Gross said:
This is the exported entry for the registry file location:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
"Removal Message"="The Outlook Desktop icon provides special functionality
and we recommend that you do not remove it."
@=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{1f4de370-d627-11d1-ba4f-00a0c91eedba}]
@="Search Results - Computers"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}]
@=""
"Removal Message"="@mydocs.dll,-900"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{6357BCB6-B06E-11D6-82EF-00C04FA03755}]
"Removal Message"="The palmOne Quick Install icon will be removed from the
Windows desktop. You can still access palmOne Quick Install from the Start
Menu. To put the icon back, open palmOne Quick Install, go to Preferences,
and click on the Show Quick Install icon."

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]
@="Recycle Bin"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{e17d4fc0-5564-11d1-83f2-00a0c90dc849}]
@="Search Results"

Hope this helps.

Nick Staff said:
Without seeing it I can only take a wild guess, but one guess is it's been
set under the namespace key in your registry. If you could open regedit and
export the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace and post the exported text.

Another thing to try is open a DOS prompt and do a dir command - see what it
says

Anyway I have to run but please let me know what you find.

nick
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