“desktop” file opens in Notepad on startup

Problem When you start your computer, a notepad window appears with some text. The name of the file is “desktop”. It may contain the following text: “[.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21787” Cause This is caused by the desktop.ini files (created by Windows) being present in (at least) one of the startup folders. The files should be set with… Continue reading “desktop” file opens in Notepad on startup