Windows now ignores untrusted desktop.ini files, breaking custom folder icons to fix a security hole. The change closes a 23-year-old Explorer trust vulnerability exploited via desktop.ini. Custom ...

If your carefully customized network folder icons vanished after this week's Windows update, you are not looking at a bug. Microsoft's June 9, 2026 Patch Tuesday update KB5094126 — which applies to ...

This is more of an administrative sanity thing than a problem, per se... I've got a file share full of user home directories, where they can save stuff that they don't need to share with each other.

Is there a way to make all desktop.ini files completely invisible? I want have show all files turned on, and I'd like to keep that, but I want to have the desktop.ini files not show up (And keep all ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

Gaming has been Samarveer’s greatest passion, and the Literature graduate in him takes immense joy in dissecting games for their themes, messages, and impact. Samarveer holds a deep appreciation of ...