Access denied to Desktop???

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Try at start-up,tap the F8 key,select at info screen,safe-mode,enter as
administ-
rator,then create a new user account,delete old,close-out,restart computer.

"Moed" wrote:

> I have WinXP Pro SP1 and after I installed a program I attempted to move the
> program folder to the desktop and for some reason after the folder was moved
> I now can not access my desktop or that folder. Specifically, I can't create
> any new folders or save files to the desktop. I just installed XP on this
> system about 3 weeks ago and it is not networked or connected to the internet
> yet. It is just a stand alone system (for now at least) that I play games on.
> Every time I right click on the desktop and select "refresh" I get a "desktop
> is not accessible" and "access denied" error. I then uninstalled the program
> and it uninstalled ok but the actual program folder is still on the desktop
> and is still unaccessible. I did a properties on it and it has 0 files in it
> and takes up 0 bytes but I can't manually delete it??
>
> Please help!! I have no idea how or why this happened and I did not change
> any permissions or anything like that. In fact, once again, except for
> installing the program (easy cd and dvd creator 6) and then dragged and
> dropped the program folder to the desktop there is nothing else that I did to
> cause this weird problem. I hope there is someone out there who knows an easy
> way to fix this without reinstalling the OS.
>
> Thanks