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by gsjostrand

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Clicking on any icon opens my documents. Icons are duplicated many times on their own. I have rebooted several times, problem won't go away. I can open a program by opening programs and clicking on the specific program.
Can anyone shed some light on whats going on. I rand Windows Defender which did not show any problems.
Help!!!
Gene

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by rob miners

and see if the Registry settings are the same. If not fix them by using the link as a reference.

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/duplicatedesktop.htm

RESOLUTION
Open Registry Editor by clicking Start Run and type in regedt32 and press Enter and navigate to the locations below

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ User Shell Folders

Double-click Desktop and set it to %USERPROFILE%\Desktop
Navigate to this location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ User Shell Folders

Set Common Desktop to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop
Close Registry Editor and restart.

Let us know how you get on.

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