desktop icons comes back after restating PC

[Guest sameer]

Hi i am using a win 2003 server and cleints win xp prof and win 2000 on few

cleints i am getting a problem that after deleting the icons it reappers

after i restart the computer.this is happening on clint computers.

 

please help.

 

sameer

[Guest Ron Badour]

Re: desktop icons comes back after restating PC

 

Icons are pictures that are assigned to shortcuts, folders or files. What

specific folder, file or shortcut is returning? Do certain deleted items

reappear or do all of them reappear?

 

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Regards

 

Ron Badour

MS MVP 1997 - 2007

 

 

"sameer" <sameer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:340317A4-53E9-44F3-9E91-DFF09F12AE7F@microsoft.com...

> Hi i am using a win 2003 server and cleints win xp prof and win 2000 on

> few

> cleints i am getting a problem that after deleting the icons it reappers

> after i restart the computer.this is happening on clint computers.

>

> please help.

>

> sameer

[Guest David Trimboli]

Re: desktop icons comes back after restating PC

 

sameer <sameer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Hi i am using a win 2003 server and cleints win xp prof and win 2000

> on few cleints i am getting a problem that after deleting the icons

> it reappers after i restart the computer.this is happening on clint

> computers.

 

Are you using roaming profiles? I often see the same situation here. To

fix it, I log the user out, remove the local copy of the profile (after

backing it up somewhere else), then have the user log in again. Now he

should be able to delete those extra files permanently.

 

You may also want to have a look at the User Profile Hive Cleanup

service from Microsoft:

http://tinyurl.com/6g8nd

 

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David

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