[Lvlug] foobar windows desktop

[Dann S. Washko]

Here is something interested I stumbled across today.  While working on 
a windows XP I accidently dragged then dropped (was on a laptop using 
touch pad) the Startup menu item from the startup menu onto the desktop. 
  This copied the startup folder to the desktop, not moved.

When I went to delete the file it told me I could not do this as it was 
a critical windows component.  So I renamed it to something else.  It 
still would not let me delete it.

I dropped into safemode and even there I could not delete the folder.  I 
went down to the command line and even though I renamed the folder on 
the desktop it was still called Startup when issuing dir.  So I used ren 
to rename it.  At that point I was able to delete the directory.

But it does not stop there.  I created a new directory on the desktop 
and named it Startup.  It would not let me delete this directory either. 
  I had to drop down to a dos window and rename the directory before I 
could delete it.

We tried this on two other machines with the same results.  You have to 
copy the startup directory to the desktop first.  Just creating a 
directory called Startup does not produce these results.

Oh, and before you can rename the directory you have to remove the 
read-only bit either in explorer or using attrib.  Sometimes the 
directory is a bit tenacious and takes a few renames and deletes before 
it will go away.