Icons disappearing with error messages and being sent to Recycle Bin

Drag your mouse around an icon on desktop. Is it now selected or deleted? If selected press F2. Can you give it another name nd does that work? If selected press ALT-ENTER, it should open the properties. Just ENTER (if selected) should open it.

robhull said:

I removed that option months ago (right click on Recycle Bin icon > Properties > Unchecked "Display delete confirmation dialog.")

put it back to test. Does it display confirmation dialog when opening shortcut?
Put it back afterwards if you wish

So:
single click deletes file (should only select it)
doubleclick delete file (should do the default action, which is OPEN)
rightclick works but after selecting any option (all options?) the file is deleted

All options seam the work, but the file has already been deleted ... hence the error message.

Is this the situation?

robhull said:

Yes, that's about right. I turned the delete confirmation dialog back on and the message popped up many, many times, along with the original error message. I tried your suggestion of dragging the mouse over to an icon and had the same problem. Here's a screenshot:

So just select a file either by dragging the mouse around it or click on it ... deletes the file. Also after rightclick and then select any option ... deletes the file as well.

Can you start regedit or is that impossible due to the problem you have? Maybe you can put it on then stardock bar where explorer++ also is. Start regedit when having problems and browse to

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
Is there a subkey "shell"? and what is its value?

also regkey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
is there a subkey "shell" and what's its value?

FliGi7 said:

Does this also happen in safe mode?

yes, he posted that