Folder keeps replicating itself

[BudAshes]

Everytime i try to delete this one empty folder on my dektop it makes a duplicate of itself. It goes to the recycle bin but a copy of it remains. Help me end the insanity.

 

[HiME]

do you mean you don't want to send it to the recycle bin?
try Shift + Delete, i'll delete the file without sending it to the recycle bin

 

[Jiggz]

It's probably being created by a program in the start up menu. You need to get the properties of the folder by right clicking it and find out which program is re-creating it and then either disable that program or edit it to create the folder somewhere else instead of the Desktop.

 

[Bozo Galora]

virus?
delete in safe mode?

or..........
security/permissions

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One of the possible reasons you can't delete a file (or directory) is that you don't have the rights to do so. It is possible to have Create and Modify rights without having Delete rights. Another possibility is that the file itself (or, more probably, the extended attributes of the file-its metadata) is corrupt. I once had a hard drive that did this on a regular basis. In fact, it was a bug with NT 3.51 with a really huge number of files. The only way to cure that particular problem was to run chkdsk /f on the drive and then reboot the computer.

A real possibility with deleting a directory is that you have another program accessing that directory (or one of its subdirectories). Check for other copies of Windows Explorer (or My Computer or My Network Places or even the command prompt) running and check to see where their current directories are pointing. Also look at any application programs that are running and where their open files are located. With programs like Notepad, it really doesn't matter. You can open a file with notepad and then go to Windows Explorer and delete the file you just opened. Notepad actually opens the file, copies all the data, and then closes that file. However, if you used Notepad to open the file MyFile.txt in D:\MyDir, even though NT allows you to delete the file immediately, you cannot delete the directory while that copy of Notepad is open, because Notepad still has a pointer to that directory.

A common reason for not being able to delete or move a file or directory is due to a program crash. If Word crashes, for instance, you might not be able to delete its temporary files. Most of the time you can cure this problem by going to the Task Manager and looking under Processes. In this case, you would be looking for an instance of Winword that you could then end from Task Manager.

You can also fail to delete a file (or the directory that file is in) if a file is being accessed remotely, either via DCOM or a shared directory.

Some applications have their own little quirks. Visual Basic has a number of these, including the inability to compile an ActiveX component (in some cases) until you have exited VB, then reopened it again. This normally occurs after you have run the application from design time and you get a "Permission Denied" when you try to compile it. Or you can use the Open command to open a file from VB and then stop the program during design time before closing the file. Normally, you can get back to square one by closing VB and opening it again.

 

[BudAshes]

Its not that i cant delete it, its that it keeps making a copy of itself when I do. Nothing else does it, just this empty folder. This is weird.

 

[Luckyboy1]

Turn off System Restore and boot into safe mode and clean again please.

 

[Rotax]

i've had similar things happen, and the result is most likely and app creating it and possibly dumping temp files (mb hidden files) to it on startup or use . .

this would be my first guess . . possibly virus, I could see doing something of this nature (typically not on the desktop...)

check all your startup registry entries w/ "startup cpl" (search google) . . disable (uncheck) anything that doesn't 'look' right . . search on .exes you are not familiar with in google.

 

[BudAshes]

Wtf, now my computer is having an even crazier problem. The cpu keeps just getting hotter and hotter until the computer crashes. I touched the heatsink after it happened and it was close to burning hot.