peculiar desktop behavior

[Jeff]

I am helping an elderly lady set up her new Windows 7 Home Premium PC
and a peculiar thing seems to happen that I've never seen before. Of
course she is not of much help but she calls me because - twice now -
all the Word documents I have placed for her in a folder named C:\DATA
suddenly appear on the desktop, filling the entire desktop! I have
never seen this before.

They seem to be copies of the files in the DATA folder because when I
delete them all the originals are still safe in the DATA folder. What
could be causing such a peculiar behavior?

Thanks, Jeff

 

[Thip]

I am helping an elderly lady set up her new Windows 7 Home Premium PC and
a peculiar thing seems to happen that I've never seen before. Of course
she is not of much help but she calls me because - twice now - all the
Word documents I have placed for her in a folder named C:\DATA suddenly
appear on the desktop, filling the entire desktop! I have never seen this
before.

They seem to be copies of the files in the DATA folder because when I
delete them all the originals are still safe in the DATA folder. What
could be causing such a peculiar behavior?

Thanks, Jeff

Have her check and see if she didn't somehow drop a shortcut into her
Startup. I say this because I had one guy somehow drop a shortcut to the
*Windows* folder on the Start Menu/Startup. It was quite interesting.

 

[Jeff]

Have her check and see if she didn't somehow drop a shortcut into her
Startup. I say this because I had one guy somehow drop a shortcut to the
*Windows* folder on the Start Menu/Startup. It was quite interesting.

Interesting idea. I'll check on it.
Thanks.

 

[Gordon]

I am helping an elderly lady set up her new Windows 7 Home Premium PC
and a peculiar thing seems to happen that I've never seen before. Of
course she is not of much help but she calls me because - twice now -
all the Word documents I have placed for her in a folder named C:\DATA

Why on EARTH use C:/Data when the CORRECT place would be
C:/Users/{Account name}/Documents?

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Why on EARTH use C:/Data when the CORRECT place would be
C:/Users/{Account name}/Documents?

Unless it has something to do with the original problem, why on EARTH
post such a question in this thread? (I don't somehow think using that
location will have caused the problem described [and snipped by you].)

(Who says it's "CORRECT" anyway? I'd say D:something would be better,
but the OP will have had his own reasons for using C:/Data.)
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[John Williamson]

Why on EARTH use C:/Data when the CORRECT place would be
C:/Users/{Account name}/Documents?

Unless it has something to do with the original problem, why on EARTH
post such a question in this thread? (I don't somehow think using that
location will have caused the problem described [and snipped by you].)

(Who says it's "CORRECT" anyway? I'd say D:something would be better,
but the OP will have had his own reasons for using C:/Data.)

D:\My Documents, anybody?

 

[Jeff]

Why on EARTH use C:/Data when the CORRECT place would be
C:/Users/{Account name}/Documents?

Unless it has something to do with the original problem, why on EARTH
post such a question in this thread? (I don't somehow think using that
location will have caused the problem described [and snipped by you].)

(Who says it's "CORRECT" anyway? I'd say D:something would be better,
but the OP will have had his own reasons for using C:/Data.)

Actually I did it for ease in backups and I did not wish to complicate
matters for this lady by partitioning the disk into system, data, etc.
like I do on my PCs.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: []

(Who says it's "CORRECT" anyway? I'd say D:something would be
better, but the OP will have had his own reasons for using C:/Data.)

D:\My Documents, anybody?

I'm not too keen on spaces - certainly in directory names, though I
sometimes put them in filenames. They can catch you (including
Microsoft) out, and quotes don't _always_ get round the problem (in
command lines for example).

[I also have a strong aversion to this preoccupation with putting "My"
in front of everything - sounds childish like My Little Pony; I was
going to say that's just me, but I think Microsoft have dropped some of
the Mys in 7.]

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

On 3/4/12 7:28 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: []

(Who says it's "CORRECT" anyway? I'd say D:something would be better,
but the OP will have had his own reasons for using C:/Data.)

Actually I did it for ease in backups and I did not wish to complicate
matters for this lady by partitioning the disk into system, data, etc.
like I do on my PCs.

Hmm, I have a similar little old lady (though she's so full of energy
she doesn't come across as the typical LOL!), for whom I _did_ partition
it - thinking that _was_ simpler. I think it would be simpler for
backing up too, but each to his own.

 

[Steve Hayes]

Why on EARTH use C:/Data when the CORRECT place would be
C:/Users/{Account name}/Documents?

Because C:\Data is a heck of a lot easier to type without mistakes.

 

[Char Jackson]

I'm not too keen on spaces - certainly in directory names, though I
sometimes put them in filenames. They can catch you (including
Microsoft) out, and quotes don't _always_ get round the problem (in
command lines for example).

I use spaces and quotes in command lines on a regular basis and
haven't found any issues. Do you have an example of where it breaks
down?

[I also have a strong aversion to this preoccupation with putting "My"
in front of everything - sounds childish like My Little Pony; I was
going to say that's just me, but I think Microsoft have dropped some of
the Mys in 7.]

I agree to a certain extent, but you might be surprised to hear that a
lot of people appreciated the disambiguity provided by the "My"
prefix, especially within the senior crowd. At least, that's what I've
found among my clientele.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

I use spaces and quotes in command lines on a regular basis and
haven't found any issues. Do you have an example of where it breaks
down?

Not to hand, but I have in the past; I remember being pleased when I
discovered quotes got round it in most cases, only to be disappointed
when I encountered somewhere where they wouldn't solve the problem. But
I don't have a 7 machine to hand (and probably couldn't generate the
example anyway).

[I also have a strong aversion to this preoccupation with putting "My"
in front of everything - sounds childish like My Little Pony; I was
going to say that's just me, but I think Microsoft have dropped some of
the Mys in 7.]

I agree to a certain extent, but you might be surprised to hear that a
lot of people appreciated the disambiguity provided by the "My"
prefix, especially within the senior crowd. At least, that's what I've
found among my clientele.

Interesting, thanks. I suppose it may also be a transpondian difference
(IIRR you're on the left).

 

[Char Jackson]

Because C:\Data is a heck of a lot easier to type without mistakes.

Who types a path these days? ;-)

 

[Gordon]

On 03/03/2012 18:25, (e-mail address removed) wrote:
I am helping an elderly lady set up her new Windows 7 Home Premium PC
and a peculiar thing seems to happen that I've never seen before. Of
course she is not of much help but she calls me because - twice now -
all the Word documents I have placed for her in a folder named C:\DATA


Why on EARTH use C:/Data when the CORRECT place would be
C:/Users/{Account name}/Documents?

Unless it has something to do with the original problem, why on EARTH
post such a question in this thread? (I don't somehow think using that
location will have caused the problem described [and snipped by you].)

(Who says it's "CORRECT" anyway? I'd say D:something would be better,
but the OP will have had his own reasons for using C:/Data.)

Actually I did it for ease in backups and I did not wish to complicate
matters for this lady by partitioning the disk into system, data, etc.
like I do on my PCs.

What's the difference between backing up C:/Data and C:/Users/Account
Name/Documents?

 

[Gordon]

Unless it has something to do with the original problem, why on EARTH
post such a question in this thread? (

Because it could quite easily have a bearing on the OP's problem by the
use of non-standard locations....

 

[Gordon]

Because C:\Data is a heck of a lot easier to type without mistakes.

When was the last time you TYPED a path?

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Because it could quite easily have a bearing on the OP's problem by the
use of non-standard locations....

In which case, you (or that poster, if it wasn't you) could have
suggested such, rather than just saying "why on EARTH" ... .

(In the case of this particular problem, which no-one seems to be
addressing, I don't think that would be related in this case.)

 

[Steve Hayes]

Who types a path these days? ;-)

I do.

 

[Steve Hayes]

When was the last time you TYPED a path?

Last week.

 

[Char Jackson]

I do.

Hmm, so you're the one then.