"Desktop" icon on desktop

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Nick D.

In the last couple of days I've noticed 2 dim icons labeled "desktop" on my
desktop. When I look at properties/details it gives the names as
desktop.ini.
the Location: of 1 is users\public\desktop; the other is
users\name\desktop. Opening the file with Notepad, I get:
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21769
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-183

and: [.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21799.

I don't know what they do or how they got on the desktop and I'd like to
know if I can just delete them.
 
You must have "Hide Protected operating system file" unchecked.
Go to folder options/view and check this box.
 
Is there any way to turn this off conditionally?

I like to see protected operating system files in explorer, but don't
want to see them on my desktop.

XP seemed to follow this behavior.

-Anton
 
PaulB said:
You must have "Hide Protected operating system file" unchecked.
Go to folder options/view and check this box.
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Paul


Nick D. said:
In the last couple of days I've noticed 2 dim icons labeled "desktop" on
my
desktop. When I look at properties/details it gives the names as
desktop.ini.
the Location: of 1 is users\public\desktop; the other is
users\name\desktop. Opening the file with Notepad, I get:
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21769
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-183

and: [.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21799.

I don't know what they do or how they got on the desktop and I'd like to
know if I can just delete them.
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You're right. I'd unchecked it to look at some folders and files and didn't
realize that there would be hidden files on the desktop.
 
Is there any way to turn this off conditionally?

I like to see protected operating system files in explorer, but
don't want to see them on my desktop.

XP seemed to follow this behavior.

-Anton
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