Is it safe to have a desktop file(with all the desktop files) under my cookies file folder?Come again?If I click on "my computer", go to hard drive(c:), then go to "documents and settings", then go to "user", then go to "cookies",........I have a desktop folder in there that has MOST of my desktop folders on it. Is it safe to delete this "cookie" folder(desktop), WITHOUT deleting all my files ON my desktop?You're saying the DESKTOP folder is inside your COOKIES folder? If so, the system is certainly not looking for it there so yes, you can delete it. But for future reference, any time you are not sure if you can delete a file or folder just MOVE it to a different location and reboot. If everything is okay, you can then permanently delete it.Before you move or delete any folders, why not find out where Windows is looking for the Desktop folder by running this little snippet:

Code: [Select]set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
WScript.Echo strDesktop

Save the script with a VBS extension and run from the command prompt as: wscript scriptname.vbs

If the popup window shows a c:\Documents and Settings\Username\Cookies\Desktop path, then everything is fine and dandy. If the popup windows shows a c:\Documents and Settings\Username\Desktop path then you should move the Desktop folder directly under the Username directory.

How did the Desktop folder get under the Cookies folder? Is there another Desktop folder directly under the Username folder? Very curious.

Good luck. While there's certainly no harm in running your script, there is no way the OS is looking for the desktop folder inside the cookie folder. It was apparently copied there in error at some point.I know this sounds dumb.....how and where do i put that script?Just move the folder to a temp directory and reboot.Allan, I havent yet deleted that desktop folder out of cookies yet BECAUSE, I ran a hard drive "search" for desktop, and there were about three or four with folder icons, ......clicked and checked those, ........and the one with my info in it , is the one that is under "cookies"sorry, didn't mean to jump the post....will try that allanJust move it and reboot. If Windows boots to a desktop with no icons you can open Windows Explorer and move it back. But I just cannot see how Windows would be using that folder as the Desktop folder.oh boy....uh.... o.k.    here goes nothingYou can't hurt anything. The worst that will happen is there won't be any icons on the desktop.BEFORE I do this, let me give you a little bit more info(should have DONE this earlier, sorry for wasting your time  .........When I download a game, I receive it in WinRar.zip format.

When my Winrar zip download file pops up, i minimze my internet browser.

So now I'm looking at my downloaded game file(winrar) and my desktop.

I create a folder with a made up "folder name" so i can easily recognize it.

I copy from the winrar and paste it in the folder.

I CHECK the folder to make sure i have the files necessary to run the game(which always works).

I then open up my "hardrive", locate program files.

I then drag the new created folder to "program files"

From "program files", I click on the new game folder.

I run the game. It works.

Then i create a SHORTCUT of the game.

Then i drag the shortcut to a GAMES folder on my desktop.(Now this has always worked for me before.I do this because my kids play these games and i dont want them to delete them, so they get access to play by the shortcuts.This has always worked without problems)

Now I know ya'll hate family stuff. My wife didn't want these game downloads under "program files".

So i created a new folder, put it in "program files", then draged and dropped the games to the new folder.

SINCE THEN.....I get these prompts:

When I drag and drop ANYTHING on my desktop:
"This page has an unspecified security flaw.Would you like to continue?"
------I click yes.

When i click on ANY shortcut on my desktop it prompts:
"Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropiate permissions to access the item."


I have ran all my AVG, Malwarebytes, and Advanced System Care programs to try to clean up stuff.

Sorry for the novel I just wrote, but that is what has happened in the past two days!