disable creation of desktop.ini

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Andy

I use group policy to redirect all my organization's
user's My Documents folder to a single location.

My problem is that whenever a user's profile directory is
created (i.e. when a user logs into a computer for the
first time), Windows creates a desktop.ini file in the
shared My Documents folder in order to personalize the
name of the folder. The issue with this is that everyone
sees <Username>'s Folder instead of My Documents.

Is there any way to disable the creation of the
desktop.ini file in Windows XP?

Thanks
 
Andy said:
I use group policy to redirect all my organization's
user's My Documents folder to a single location.
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So everyone by default ends up putting files into one folder? Why not have
each user have a folder under a global location, thereby still giving each a
folder that is their own but stored in one location? Isn't it risking
confusion by having all users saving files to one location?
My problem is that whenever a user's profile directory is
created (i.e. when a user logs into a computer for the
first time), Windows creates a desktop.ini file in the
shared My Documents folder in order to personalize the
name of the folder. The issue with this is that everyone
sees <Username>'s Folder instead of My Documents.

Is there any way to disable the creation of the
desktop.ini file in Windows XP?
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Have you tried just opening the file, clearing out the personalisation
entries, saving the file, and then marking it read only? Or does XP override
the read only flag on this file?

Dan
 
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