Icons re-appearing

I have a desktop computer in my home-office. I have a laptop (Win-10 Home)
in my family room with which I browse the Internet when bored.

I had just done a new install of Windows-10 Pro on the desktop computer when
I noticed that my desktop icons for the programs installed on the
home-office computer now appeared on my laptop desktop. I thought I was
going nuts so I deleted the duplicated icons on the laptop desktop. When I
looked at my desktop I found the icons that I deleted on my laptop were also
deleted on my desktop now!

I went through the windows share(d) options and said no to them but the
problem persists. This works the other way too. For example on laptop if I
rt-click on desktop and create a "New Folder" that "New Folder" will also
appear on my desktop and vice-versa.

How do I get out of this stupid problem?

On 09/08/2019 03:33, wrote:


How do I get out of this stupid problem?

The easiest way is to hire a technician who can come to your house and
fix the problem for you. They are completely free these days as they
are paid by Microsoft and Google when they use Google Maps or Microsoft
Maps when coming to visit potential customers. Try them and let us know.

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wrote:
I have a desktop computer in my home-office. I have a laptop (Win-10
Home) in my family room with which I browse the Internet when bored.

I had just done a new install of Windows-10 Pro on the desktop computer
when I noticed that my desktop icons for the programs installed on the
home-office computer now appeared on my laptop desktop. I thought I was
going nuts so I deleted the duplicated icons on the laptop desktop. When
I looked at my desktop I found the icons that I deleted on my laptop
were also deleted on my desktop now!

I went through the windows share(d) options and said no to them but the
problem persists. This works the other way too. For example on laptop if
I rt-click on desktop and create a "New Folder" that "New Folder" will
also appear on my desktop and vice-versa.

How do I get out of this stupid problem?

I'm not seeing something here that matches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featur..._to_Windows_10

In Sharing and Timeline, the "trend" in the design is to use
Notifications when there is an attempt at a state change.

Presumably, this is intended to give the user some idea
what is happening.

Yet, in your description, there's no Notification. Maybe in
the Notifications control (where ever that is), the Notification
for this "feature" is turned off ?

*******

You can try tracking it down.

Of your two machines, use one machine as the stimulus,
and the second machine as the response.

On the second machine, install and run Process Monitor.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...nloads/procmon

Start process monitor running.
Dismiss the filter for the moment.

Now, create a new folder on the stimulus machine.
Call the folder "wacky".

On the second machine (response), go to the File Menu of ProcMon
after the "wacky" folder appears on the desktop. Untick
the capture tickmark, so the trace will stop in Process Monitor.

In Filters, you can now set

Operation "is" CreateFile
Operation "is" WriteFile

This will reduce the amount of trace visible for the moment.

Presumably a service is doing this. You will see a SVCHOST
perhaps is the source of "CreateFile" "Wacky". Perhaps
the SVCHOST has a PID or numeric process ID.

If this is the Pro version, you can do

tasklist /svc

and that should give a list of the services inside
a SVCHOST with a particular PID.

Alternately, you can use Process Explorer. Select Run as Administrator
when running it, to maximize the information it can give.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...ocess-explorer

Using Process Explorer, and the information you can gather on services,
maybe you will see a service name for this.

In terms of SVCHOSTs, a large number have a 1:1 relationship.
However, there is one SVCHOST which has maybe 15 different
services inside. And if that's the SVCHOST creating the
"Wacky" folder, then it may be more difficult to isolate
to that service.

Once you have the service narrowed down, that might give
you one more breadcrumb to use to determine what "feature"
is doing this.

Paul

On 8/8/2019 10:33 PM, wrote:
I have a desktop computer in my home-office. I have a laptop (Win-10
Home) in my family room with which I browse the Internet when bored.

I had just done a new install of Windows-10 Pro on the desktop computer
when I noticed that my desktop icons for the programs installed on the
home-office computer now appeared on my laptop desktop. I thought I was
going nuts so I deleted the duplicated icons on the laptop desktop. When
I looked at my desktop I found the icons that I deleted on my laptop
were also deleted on my desktop now!

I went through the windows share(d) options and said no to them but the
problem persists. This works the other way too. For example on laptop if
I rt-click on desktop and create a "New Folder" that "New Folder" will
also appear on my desktop and vice-versa.

How do I get out of this stupid problem?
Have you set up an Microsoft account and were you logged into that
account when you did the install?

Sometime ago I bought a new computer, set it up and was surprised to
find things like many personal items from my old computer on my new
computer.

See Settings, Accounts, Sync Your Settings

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