Icons on desktop twice

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pmetzle

In an effort to make everything on my desktop available to
everyone who uses this machine, I dragged the desktop
directory from my directory to the all users. Now all the
icons appear on my desktop twice. Does anyone know where
one might change the settings?
 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserShell Folders
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
Type Regedit in Start - Run, navigate to the above keys and see what path each lists for the desktop.
 
Thanks Dave - I managed to get the same problem - totally did me head i
until I found your response.

The 2 keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE had been changed to Current user
Just needed to change BOTH of these to All Users (or similar
resembling the other keys in each appropriate section


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Force9Stor
 
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