Comments on: Vista – Desktop.ini Files Shown on the Desktop

By: Jamon723

Jamon723 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:58:20 +0000

In the original question said they enabled “Show hidden files and folders”, this is not the same as “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)”. You can still have “Show hidden files and folders” checked and select to “Hide protected operating system files” simultaneously. So Oblivion was obviously Oblivious when he said

“Those of us that are not complete dumb-asses already know this and are not having the same problem. It was the last line of the question at the top Ramesh… did you even read it ?

WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW IS HOW TO HAVE THE CHECK BOX UNCHECKED AND STILL ***NOT*** HAVE THE DESKTOP.INI FILES SHOWN ON THE DESKTOP.”

because obviously you didn’t even read it. Thanks for the fix Ramesh.

By: Oblivion

Oblivion — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:29:00 +0000

I know this is old news but I don’t care.

@ bob’s comment
I agree 100%. People that think seven/vista are better and run faster or make there PC better are just dumb and don’t know how software works at all. “$h1T runs down hill”… It gets harder and harder to make software run faster. If it was the other way around we would be able to run the newest OS’s on the oldest of hardware because that OS would be faster than the last one. So this is message to all the dumb people out there who buy into what ol M$ tells you to believe… Why do you think the system requirements for vista are higher than XP? Or why sevens requirements are higher than even vista? Because they are !!!SLOWER!!!. DERP

@ .s’s comment
Yeah…. WTF is wrong with all the people that say thank you for this? it doesn’t answer the question at all. Are those people so dumb that they don’t know what they changed in their own PC? The view is set to *NOT* show these files by default, so *YOU* had to have changed something to make them appear. change it back, it’s not rocket science.

Those of us that are not complete dumb-asses already know this and are not having the same problem. It was the last line of the question at the top Ramesh… did you even read it ?

WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW IS HOW TO HAVE THE CHECK BOX UNCHECKED AND STILL ***NOT*** HAVE THE DESKTOP.INI FILES SHOWN ON THE DESKTOP.

The best solution I have found for THIS problem is to enable multiple desktops on other display adapters, like your Mobo’s on board GFX card, and then just move the files “off the screen”. But this is not professional at all. A better solution would be to redirect where the OS looks for these files and move them there. But I’m REALLY REALLY lazy. Some one else should edit the registry to do this and post it somewhere.

By: JohnMiller

JohnMiller — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:53:06 +0000

Brilliant! You have a working solution (for Win7) where lots of other sites offer ineffective (and elaborate) ‘fixes’. Thanks!

By: Ruby

Ruby — Tue, 17 May 2011 12:24:01 +0000

thanks so much – worked perfectly!

By: NV

NV — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:46:48 +0000

didn’t work for me :( I have Windows 7 Ultimate…

checked the Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) then apply… uncheck again (click yes in the question box), and when press apply the file shows up again in the desktop :(

Anyone knows what might be going on?

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:42:40 +0000

Thanks, ‘worked for me too, ‘had almost gone ahead and deleted them.

By: Holysam

Holysam — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 15:16:20 +0000

Omg I can not belive it worked…THANKS i was about to delete them one by one cuze they were everywhere….

By: bob

bob — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:04:51 +0000

Neither Vista nor 7 are actual ‘upgrades’ to XP. They’re both crummier OSes shoved down our throats by a company that’s too dumb to see that they had a good thing with XP , but were unable to figure out how to make any more money from it.

The fact that you cannot ‘Show Hidden Files’ w/o having two annoying desktop.ini icons show up is just one of many examples.

By: Plug

Plug — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:30:27 +0000

I was dumb enough to completely remove them from the desktop without saving a back up of the two ini files first! *facepalm* , now my desktop is acting weird some time after booting, resulting in ‘focus loss’ of the icons in the system tray so that you can’t double click on them to open programs/what not.

Really frustrating.

Is there a way to get them on the desktop again, back-up somewhere to be found in the windows directory or online? Am using vista home premium 32 bit.

Cheers,

Richard

By: TyagiShobha

TyagiShobha — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:34:00 +0000

thanks all I was about to delete these desktop.ini files considering them as bugs