Shortcuts doubling on desktop...Please Help!!!

[Tankgirl]

I have a friend that whenever he creates a shortcut on his
desktop it gets doubled as soon as the screen refreshes.
This happens also when he installs something and the
shortcut is placed that way as well. When he deletes one
of the shortcuts, they both will disappear, but only one
shows up in the recycle bin. I have searched the net for
a week and haven't come up with anything! Please help!!!

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Hi,

Follow these steps, courtesy of David Candy:

Open Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) and go to these locations:

Backup the registry before modifying it.

[HKEY CURRENT USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
Set "Desktop" value as "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop"

[HKEY CURRENT USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
Set "Desktop" value as C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\Desktop

Replace <Username> with the actual user profile name.
[HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
Set "Common Desktop" value as "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop"

[HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
Set "Common Desktop" value as "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop"

Restart Windows.

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Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
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I have a friend that whenever he creates a shortcut on his
desktop it gets doubled as soon as the screen refreshes.
This happens also when he installs something and the
shortcut is placed that way as well. When he deletes one
of the shortcuts, they both will disappear, but only one
shows up in the recycle bin. I have searched the net for
a week and haven't come up with anything! Please help!!!