Disable creation of desktop.ini files in Windows 8

This worked perfectly with Windows 10, while still being able to view hidden files I needed to see. Thanks and hopefully people start listening to people like you, who know what they are talking about. Many Thanks

thank you mahesh

I would like you to inform that Desktop.ini is a system file which deals with common folders such as Downloads, Documents, Pictures, and Music etc. When a change is made in these folders, Desktop.ini is updated. Duh

Removing the file will cause issues with the Operating System and so it is not recommended to remove the files. The desktop.ini file by default has the System, Hidden and Read-only attributes assigned. Duh

If you want to stop these messages, go to Folder Options through Search click settings and you will see Folder Options, click it and the View tab and scroll until you see " Hide protected operation system files (recommended) and put a check in the box. Duh

Hope this answers your query. You can write back to us for further queries/issues related to windows and we will be glad to assist you further. LOL

Dear Mahesh,

I hope you found meanwhile a better job than answering clearly stated questions with utterly useless and misleading answers. Cannot imagine Microsoft would continue to pay for junk like that. I recommend a job at a Darjeeling tea plantation. Good stuff and not intellectually challenging.

Take care.

Folks - Just put the following in a byebye.reg file, run it and then delete old ini files as you like:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] 

"UseDesktopIniCache"=dword:00000000

Disable The Creation Of New Desktop.ini Files On Your Windows Computer

Open NotePad, or other programming code editor

(Do not use Office Word, nor any other Word Processor)

For Newer versions of Windows, Add the following three

lines of code.

+++++++ DO NOT USE THIS LINE

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\

CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

"UseDesktopIniCache"=dword:00000000

+++++++ DO NOT USE THIS LINE

Make sure that there is no blank line above the line...

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

For older versions of Windows, substitute the line....

REGEDIT4

...instead of the first line

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

Make sure that the second line of code...

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\

Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

...is all one one line of code,

without any blank spaces in it,

and without any hyphens/dashes in it.

I have broken the second line of code

onto two separate lines above,

and I have broken it in two different places

each time I posted it,

because if I try to post it as one line for you,

this goofy forum without the ability to post 'code',

adds a hyphen at the end of its second line,

wherever it breaks apart the last word

it displays on its second line.

If, in your editor, you see the second line of code

being continued onto a third line in your editor,

make sure that is is being continued onto that third line

by being 'wrapped' onto the third line,

and that the second line of code is Not being broken

at the end of the second line with a 'line break'

before continuing onto the third line of your editor.

Make sure that my third line of code is using

proper double-quotation marks

that point straight up and down, like these [" "]

and Not double-quotation marks

that are on an angle, like these [“ ”],

otherwise, it will Not work.

Save the file with any name you like,

but use the extension ".reg" (without the double-quotation marks).

Even if you are seeing the saved file with the extension ".reg",

make sure that it was not if fact saved with the extension ".reg.txt",

which could be the case, and you will have no way of knowing it,

if you still have Windows set to to its default option of

"Hide extensions for known file types".

In other words, open your 'Control Panel' > 'Folder Options',

('File Explorer Options' for Windows 10),

click on the tab "View",

remove the check-mark for "Hide extensions for known file types"

and click the bottom button "OK".

Go back to the folder with your new file,

and if it ends in ".reg.txt", delete the ".txt".

Double click on the file to 'Merge' it into your registy.

==================

To undo this change, edit the file again,

and change the last '0' of...

00000000

to a '1', so that the number is

00000001

Save the file, and double-click on it

to begin the merge.

[Tested with Windows 8.1 64-bit, fully updated, 2016.07.16]