desktop icons comes back after restating PC

[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

 

[Ron Badour]

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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Ron Badour
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"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

 

[David Trimboli]

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
Stardate 7509.2