Desktop.ini

HalOfBorg

Booted up the computer today, and Notepad opened up a small file named "desktop.ini" that is located in my "Startup" folder.

Contents of file:

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21787


Now, i'm not all worried about this, just curious as to how it got there, and where it should be.

I have found about 15 other desktop.ini files, all equally cryptic and probably all boring as hell.

Anyone have an idea as to how it got there??

stoopid

It's a file used by windows for various purposes...

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=desktop%2Eini

http://www.cpcug.org/user/clemenzi/technical/WinExplorer/desktop_ini.htm

Guess what, besides registry settings which hide various extensions, Windows Explorer has another way to hide data from users. Specifically, when a directory contains a specially formatted and hidden file named desktop.ini, it instructs Windows Explorer not to show you the directory's contents. Instead, desktop.ini identifies another program which formats the display any way it likes.

From one point of view, this is pretty cool - it allows some data to be stored in one format and displayed in another. (Humm, isn't that what applications do?) Only this time, it displays the data in the same tree view as disk directories and files.