problem: two icons for the price of one

[Andre]

Hi !

I found you can have two icons on your desktop whenever you put just one shortcut on it. That's what happens to mine, but that's not what you might want and it isn't because I've had one too much. Can anyone please help get rid of those double icons?

[Dirk Diggler]

This is usually the effect of playing in the Registry, by having the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" and "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" User Shell Folders Desktop's in the same location. Move one of them and all will be well.

[MetallikaMan]

Can someone please make this fix a bit more clear and precise?

[Dirk Diggler]

Click the Start button, click the Run button type:-
REGEDIT
click OK.
When the Registry is open make your way down the left hand side to these two points:-
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

If the Desktop locations are exactly the same then one of them needs changing.

The default place for HKEY_CURRENT_USER is:-
%USERPROFILE%\Desktop

The default place for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE is:-
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop

[MetallikaMan]

Worked, thank you.