Ahh yes, good old Desktop.ini. When I started my current job they had a picture of Hannibal Lector as the background of the accounting folder. Very dark and irritating to see the document icons. I asked if I could disable it and the head accountant was like "God Yes, we have been asking for years and no one knows how to fix it. " Hannibal is no longer .....
I actually didn't know you could do that until I saw it in action, could be a good prank for someone..... -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 6:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Strange folder view On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Glen Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a display of home folders from a windows 2008 server. The DESKTOP.INI file can override the name of the folder it's in and tell the OS to display something else. The intent was for localized names, I believe. So, e.g., the "Music" folder shows up as "Music" for me, but might be "M��sica" for Spanish locale, or������" for Chinese. It can also implement magic where folder names appear differently depending on who's viewing them. My account BSCOTT shows "My Documents", but if JSMITH views my folder he'll see "BSCOTT's Documents". In Vista, of course, the first-person possessive pronoun was dropped, so "My Documents" is just "Documents". I bet that's what's doing this. I dunno of a fix, short of disabling DESKTOP.INI entirely, and I don't even know a good way to do that. I suspect the registry redirection trick used to kill AUTORUN.INF might work for DESKTOP.INI, too, though. Come to think of it, I wonder if there are any security exposures from DESKTOP.INI. I know it can reference a DLL to obtain a localized string... I wonder if it can also run code? -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
