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What are the desktop.ini files for?

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Mar 15, 202640352 views
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My desktop has two hidden .ini files: and under the same name, Is it safe to simply delete them? (They don't look like they are doing anything (and I like to have the display setting "show all hidden files" enabled, so it's appearing on my desktop, yikes).) BTW, why is it possible that two files ha…

Error Output

desktop.ini (370 bytes):

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21799
[LocalizedFileNames]
Microsoft Office - 6…

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As you make customizations to a system folder, the system will auto-generate a desktop.ini file in that folder to store the settings. A good resource for this is here. While you can delete the file, Windows will likely automatically re-create the fi…

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