Insomniac Posted March 21, 2009 ID:66292 Share Posted March 21, 2009 When I first created me user account after formatting, I saw a folder in the start menu called 'startup'. (this is with vista 32)I opened it and seeing as it was empty I deleted it, thinking it would just delete the start menu shortcut. I read a bit more about what this thing actually does and decided to see if I could restore it.Merely dropping a folder in to the proper location (C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs) results in a non-functional Startup folder in the start menu.Also, the 'all users' startup folder seems to be missing as well, it is not found here (C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs) (This is viewed by my user though, I'll try in a minute as admin).If I create the 'all users' startup folder, I get the folder in start menu with the correct right-click menu, and it functions. However it functions for all users, not just my own.Is there any way to restore my own startup folder? I tried copying another user's but it didn't work.Ahh crap... now my sister's startup folder doesn't work either... and I didn't even modify hers, only tried to copy it over. Bah!*************************EDIT**********************************Fixed it. Needed to re-make both startup folders then log off and on. Now I have a startup folder pointing to my own users's directory that also has the proper right-click interface... BUT now I have another minor problem!In the process of troubleshooting this issue, I created an extra user to see if it would work on that user. I deleted the user, told vista to delete it's files, but it still has it's own directory in the 'users' folder. The user doesn't show up at the start menu or in control panel, it's folders have just been left behind. I used to have this problem pre-format as well, it dissapeard after formatting but now after using the pc for a few months it's back.Is it safe to simply delete that user's folder now that I've deleted them in control panel?*************************MORE EDIT**********************************Did some more searching, sifting through various forums and finally found somone telling somone else how to delete a user. He mentioned that it will often leave that folder behind and it's safe to delete. During some more testing I'd ended up with two old user folders in my users folder. One deleted fine, the other reported it was in use by another program. Restart solved that and now they are gone.Has anyone else had this happen / is willing to make and delete a new user to see if it happens / has any idea why it happens? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted March 21, 2009 ID:66318 Share Posted March 21, 2009 No worries, it's just "Windows Leftovers" so to speak, and you should be fine deleting the extra user folder as you did. I've done it before after a repair install (it leaves the old user account folders behind). I've not had any issues with it since I did it (it's been like a year or more) so you should be fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insomniac Posted March 21, 2009 Author ID:66329 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Cool, thanks for the reply. Strangely, this didn't happen immediatly after our last format, but it did before and it does now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted March 21, 2009 ID:66330 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Freaky. Oh well, as long as everything's working O.K., what's a few extra folders between friends ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insomniac Posted March 21, 2009 Author ID:66334 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Now it starts to get really weird.I know that if you try and create an account with the same name as an existing user folder, it adds the pc name to the end of the new folder so they are different. So, to check if vista thought there was still an account I made a new account identical to one of the ones I deleted. It all worked fine and had the normal name, so I went to delete that account as it had served it's purpose.Deleted it's user folder, logged out then realised I'd forgotten to remove it via control panel first. Whoops! Logged back in, restored it's user folder from recycle bin, checked the folder was back in 'users' and then deleted via control panel. Went back to 'users' to manually delete the folder, and it was gone!It seems once you've claimed permission to the folder by modifying it in some way (such as accidently sending it to recycle bin ) then the control panel suddenly regains the ability to delete it itself. Arn't computers weird? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted March 21, 2009 ID:66336 Share Posted March 21, 2009 ...Arn't computers weird?File and folder permissions can be very weird (not to mention the countless other occasional oddities in Windows). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insomniac Posted March 21, 2009 Author ID:66340 Share Posted March 21, 2009 True, true.Only one question remains... Where did my italics go? Also, what's with the quote button in this forum? When I hit it it goes red and the + turns to a -In every other forum I'm on it drops the person's message you hit the quote button for into the text area. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted March 21, 2009 ID:66344 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Hee hee, I didn't quote you, I used copy/paste, hence the lack of italics . As far as the +Quote button, I noticed that as well and never use it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoKenny1 Posted March 21, 2009 ID:66385 Share Posted March 21, 2009 True, true.Only one question remains... Where did my italics go? Also, what's with the quote button in this forum? When I hit it it goes red and the + turns to a -In every other forum I'm on it drops the person's message you hit the quote button for into the text area.That's the way this forum software works.Use the REPLY button. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted March 21, 2009 ID:66397 Share Posted March 21, 2009 True, true.Only one question remains... Where did my italics go? Also, what's with the quote button in this forum? When I hit it it goes red and the + turns to a -In every other forum I'm on it drops the person's message you hit the quote button for into the text area.Click on quote (it turns red) then click on reply. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insomniac Posted March 23, 2009 Author ID:66732 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Click on quote (it turns red) then click on reply.Like this? Seems a bit of an unusual way to do it.... I've never used quote up until now because I didn't think it was functional. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted March 23, 2009 ID:66743 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Yeah, I didn't know how to use it either, I always just used "REPLY. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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