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User Folder on Desktop displays wrong Name

Anonymous
2018-11-20T19:49:45+00:00

Hello,

soooo i just noticed, the User Files Folder, that can be displayed on the Desktop and Explorer

(you know, the one with your Username) has changed it's mind to Display "Ordner" (German for Folder*).

This is the case for:

  • My Desktop User Folder Icon (See image)
  • The Explorer Adress Bar, when opened*
  • The Userfolder Preview Icon in the settings for Desktopsymbols
  • The same things above for a New created test user
  • Changing the System Language changed the Text to "Folders", wich means, that it's not something written in stone and it is translated somewhere

For some Reason, the folder is also found by Windows, when i enter the normal name of the folder.

(EDIT: No it's not. that was just a misinterpretation by me)

I already searched the Registery and found some entries for this folder, but when i compared them with a computer that does not has this issue, I did not found any differences, hence i didn't change anything.

(Not my username at all).

I'm currently running Windows 10 1803 Pro.

Unfortunately i recently cleaned the temporary files and,with it, all system restore points.

But there must be something wrong in the registery or Files it references i think.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-11-22T04:07:35+00:00

    If you <Shift>+right-click in the folder background and select Open PowerShell Window here, the path is shown in the prompt. What is the name of the folder there?

    Then, in the PowerShell window, type:

    gci desktop.ini -force

    If that lists a file, type the following:

    ren desktop.ini desktop.sav -force

    And see if that helps.

    Keith

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-11-21T17:32:33+00:00

    Yes to both.

    it's ~18MB and from the 11. April 2018

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-11-20T22:19:50+00:00

    No, this would not help. Have a look at the file c:\Windows\System32\Config\System. Is its size greater than 0? Does its date stamp precede your problem?

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-11-20T20:48:00+00:00

    Thanks for the answer. Unfortunately the only system restore point left is from yesterday (when this problem already existed), since I recently cleaned the history of restore points. I Can try this one point if you think that still could help.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-11-20T20:02:13+00:00

    If this is a recent phenomenon then System Restore (Systemwiederherstellung) might fix it, without loss of data.

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