Corrupt desktop.ini

Question

Ran SF /scannow and in the report it said my desktop.ini is corrupt and could not be fixed.  The best answer i got required I get a clean desktop.ini file from another computer but I can't.  Any ideas how to fix this or where on web can i go and get clean desktop.ini  Running Windows 7

Answer 1

No I never got a clear answer to my question. I did however found out that there are many, in my case over 80, desktop.ini files scattered throughout my c: drive.  I also found out that the update KB3022345 is most likely at the root of the problem, the problem being SFC /scannow showing corrupt files found where these files are not really corrupt.  See the link for more on this update.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2922324/microsoft-windows/windows-usage-tracker-patch-kb-3022345-triggers-sys-file-corruption-which-sfc-is-unable-to-fix.html

The really big problem after running SFC /scannow was that it locked out my user profile, I only have one as I'm the only user of this laptop, and thus when I log on all my desktop is gone, reverted to the default one, and a message appears in lower left saying that cannot load user profile and system is using default user profile instead.  I had a **** of a time finding solution to this problem and how to fix it  but finally was able to do it after trying all other suggestions, the only one  that worked was making a couple small edits in the registry which knowing how even a small mistake can really mess up your system, I followed the well written directions and everything returned to normal.

Thanks for your help. Andrew

Answer 2

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

This hidden file is placed in every folder to tell the operating system how to display and customize the viewing of that specific folder.

Deleting these files will just remove any customizations set by the desktop.ini file. Although it should not hurt your system, trying to delete these files can be frustrating as the Windows operating system may rebuild them.

Enabling the Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) setting in Folder Options hides the two Desktop.ini files, as well. To access the Folder Options, open Windows Explorer, click Organize, click Folder and Search Options and select the View tab.

Hope this helps. Please reply to us with the status of the issue.

Thanks.