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New Post 5/7/2007 2:31 PM
User is offline Vishal Gupta
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Re: DID YOU KNOW? Windows VISTA Facts & Goof-ups 
ANOTHER BUG...

1. Goto "Organize -> Folder & Search Options".
2. In "View" tab, enable "Show hidden files and folders" option and disable "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)" option.
3. Now check the Desktop, u'll get 2 "desktop.ini" files on desktop.

Now first thing wth there are 2 desktop.ini files? I came to know that 1 file is for current user and 1 for all users profile.
Ok, but why these files are shown on desktop after enabling/disabling above mentioned options?
In earlier versions of windows (like XP) no such file was shown on desktop even the file exists in desktop folder, but it was not used to show on desktop. It was a good feature.

But in Vista, it looks so annoying. Many users like me enable "show hidden files/folders" option and disable the option "hide protected system files". But if we do so, then desktop starts showing those 2 ugly files. I want a clean desktop, as clean as possible. So its too annoying...

And if u delete the files, they'll re appear after restart.

So its definitely another BUG in Vista...
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New Post 5/7/2007 5:23 PM
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Re: DID YOU KNOW? Windows VISTA Facts & Goof-ups 
No vishal,  its not a bug, desktop.ini are required but as you changed those options
, it was viewed there on desktop.

This can be changed through registry:
goto
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advance
in that there's ShowSuperHidden is there, its value will be 1 , so make it 0
And you will not see those desktop.ini on your desktop.
So there's a thing in Vista as Superhidden files !!
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New Post 5/7/2007 6:17 PM
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Re: DID YOU KNOW? Windows VISTA Facts & Goof-ups 
Actually this 'Superhidden' was present in XP also, but its value used to be 0,
But in Vista its changed to 1 when those settings were changed.

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New Post 5/7/2007 11:23 PM
User is offline Vishal Gupta
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Re: DID YOU KNOW? Windows VISTA Facts & Goof-ups 
lol. U didn’t get what I was trying to say.
 
1. "SuperHidden" is not any new thing. It was also there in XP, as u said.
2. "SuperHidden" is not any secret DWORD value. Its for "Hide Protected system files" option in "Folder Options".
3. U can check it. If u enable this option in folder options, then "SuperHidden" will be changed to 0 and if u disable it, then "SuperHidden" will be changed to 1.
 
So at last the things is same. When we do both things:
 
1. Enable "show hidden files"
2. disable "hide protected system files"
 
The "desktop.ini" files will be shown on desktop, which shouldn’t be shown.
They are there for some purpose and a user might delete them by mistake or by intention. So they must be invisible from users, like it used to in earlier versions of windows.
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New Post 5/8/2007 12:07 AM
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Re: DID YOU KNOW? Windows VISTA Facts & Goof-ups 
Agreed vishal, Winking smile emoticon
What I suggested about tweaking 'Superhidden' through registry was already done by you from the option  in Folder option, so those ini files appeared on desktop.
As you said ,it’s the same thing doing in different way.
But this desktop.ini is shown on desktop , as you said when you enable 'show hidden files"  AND disable "hide protecting system files".
But if you want the hidden files to be shown but desktop.ini not to be shown on desktop, then check   "hide protecting system files". So this can be done but you want both conditions.
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