C:/Emergency Shortcut

[Wandering Flame]

Every time I restart my computer, this shortcut keeps appearing in my desktop. I'm not sure why, and I'd like for it to stop appearing on my desktop all the time.

Thanks.

 

[derekimo]

Can you post a screenshot of it? When you right click, choose properties where does it say the file is located?

 

[Carl Lawrence]

Do you have any programs running in the background?

 

[Wandering Flame]

What's the point of taking a screenshot of it? It's a shortcut folder on the desktop.

The location is C: as I thought it would be.

No there are no programs running...like I said this always appears upon booting my computer, even after I have trashed it so many times.

The location is the C: drive and the folder in C: is called "Emergency".

Yet on the desktop the folder is called "Emergency Backup"...yet it points to "Emergency" in the C: drive.

 

[derekimo]

OK, don't take a screenshot of it, I thought it would help in case someone recognized it.

 

[SIW2]

When did it first appear?

Have you tried one of those "timeline" backup apps. ?

Anything unusual in msconfig?

 

[Wandering Flame]

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It was appearing...ever since I did something in that folder. All I remember, however is making a new folder in the Emergency folder, and that newly made folder had some music files, and video files. Ever since then it kept making "Emergency Backup" on the desktop, and this points to Emergency in C:

What's a timeline backup?

How am I supposed to notice something weird in msconfig? Most of the things listed there look pretty random so it's hard to tell whether or not something's up with it.

 

[Wandering Flame]

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[eldinv]

Have you installed any backup programs?

 

[periboob]

Until you get a better suggestion, I just happened to be browsing the tutorials, and saw this

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/78151-icons-make-shortcuts-folders-invisible.html

 

[unifex]

Your C:\Emergency folder, how did it appear in the first place? Have you created it manually or there was some sort of application that created the folder (such as Microsoft Emergency Recovery Utility, etc.)?

 

[Wandering Flame]

Backup Programs, maybe by accident? I don't know. The shortcut on the desktop is called "Emergency Backup" so I guess that means something...when the shorcut just leads to Emergency in C:

To periboob, I was wanting to just not have it there in the first place. I don't know why it started appearing there all of a sudden.

 

[Wandering Flame]

unifex, are you saying the Emergency folder in C: is not initially supposed to be there? I thought that was something almost everyone had by default.

I don't know how it appeared, but I used it to put some files into it that I will later transport to me PSP..these files are just music and video files, though that part is probably not important.

 

[eldinv]

No such folder called Emergency suppose to sit in your C drive.

You don't know if you installed a Backup program?

How about doing a Virus scan or a Malwarebytes scan.

 

[profdlp]

You might want to post your system specs, Wandering Flame. There is a chance it's some program installed by the manufacturer. If this is a laptop it might be a utility bugging you to burn a recovery disc or something like that.

I'd also second the motion by eldinv that you run a malware scan.

 

[Erich2]

I have a Dell Inspiron 560. It came with Dell Datasafe Backup and Recovery. I believe this is the program reloading the desktop shortcut after each deletion / reboot. It does the same thing on mine. I have yet to find a solution, but when I do, I'll post it