Deleted files on windows 7

[karenmac60]

At work we have had all new pcs with windows 7 installed. Items that have been saved to the desktop are reappearing after deletion and I don't know why. The items are deleted, and the recycle bin emptied, but the items keep coming back. The pcs are public access so people are (rightly) getting quite annoyed that their cvs or whatnot are available for other users to see. We do have an IT dept, but I wondered if anyone knows a solution to this so I don't have to keep calling them out. I'm off to bed just now so I won't be around to answer any replies till tomorrow.

Thanks

Karen

[RAV1D]

It sounds like you are just deleting the shortcut icons off the desktop into the recycle bin and the actual program is not deleted, there for when the program decides to auto update it's self it makes it's self a new shortcut icon on the desktop again. A shortcut is just like a button you click to make it easyer to start a program, it's not the actual program. the program will be saved else where on your computer and will have never been deleted.

[rojash]

Sounds to me more like your IT dept have implemented a Group Policy that prevents deletion of desktop icons, when what they should have done is prevented users from saving to the desktop in the first place.

[ChuckFickens]

Or you have roaming profiles which aren't updating one way.

[karenmac60]

It's not a shortcut to a programme - it's a word document that has been saved directly to the desktop. There are no roaming profiles set and it is the same software on all 10 pcs but only 2 are affected by this issue. I've googled it and there seem to be quite a few folk with the same problem but no solutions which work as far as I can find. I'm totally stumped! Thanks though guys.

[beso]

Sounds like an odd problem. I don't have any idea how it could happen without a roaming profile.

BTW this usually happens with roaming profiles when the user logs in on two machines. The last to logoff controls the profile so deleting from one does not necessarily get rid of it.

[karenmac60]

Even more bizarrely, a guy was typing a letter up on one of the pcs that is doing this, which still has a cv on the desktop that I can't delete. He asked for help with printing and when I hit print the screen sort of refreshed and suddenly part of the cv appeared in the letter! No one had done anything that should have caused it to happen, it just did.