I've just had to re-instal Windows XP Home, and now find that when logging on to each of the users other than the first user (where I did most of the set up), the Desktop.ini file gets displayed in Notepad, showing

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21787

Can anyone please let me know why this has suddenly started happening, whether it is a serious problem, and how I can turn it off.

I've checked the Folder Options, and the users concerned have the setting 'Do not show hidden files and folders'. In fact, the one user where this problem does not occur has the setting 'Show hidden files and folders'.

All of the users were initially Administrator type, but changing them to Limited makes no difference.