Windows 10: Folders displaying twice

OK thanks, will do.

I have another issue which keeps happening. Not major I know, but again, it didn't happen with Win7.

The "ENG" language selector icon, bottom right, will not let me disable it. It's always right back there when I reboot.

I unselected it, reboot, it's selected again. 3 times now.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? I see from a quick google search that this is a common problem

[Fix] Icon Comes Back in Taskbar Notification Area After Restarting Windows - AskVG

says to set it as hidden but it already is

 

It would be best to create a new thread for the other issue so as to keep this thread on topic.

 

OK I don't know how to change the owner to groups

 

Incidentally, I've followed instructions from those links. I've also followed instructions I've found elsewhere for other problems (the "ENG" icon still will not go away but I've done exactly what the instructions said.

I'm going back to Win7. I appreciate the help people have tried to give me, but this OS is a joke. I shouldn't have to use 3rd party apps to get my OS to work properly. I don't know why MS would remove my ability to do certain things like decide what displays and what doesn't. I don't know why videos suddenly stop playing and display "Windows Media Player has encountered a problem..." when it played the day before and I haven't changed any settings.

Perhaps my computer is wearing out or overheating. I've noticed Win10 makes it run a lot louder than did Win7. Either way, bring on Win11!

 

You would enter the name "administrators" just like in step 7 of OPTION FOUR below.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...a.html#option4

 

OK, did that, this time it allowed me to do it, but there are still only 2 options available - (Default) and FolderValueFlags.

I'm not an expert in "ownership". I'm not sure why, since I'm signed in as administrator, I don't automatically have ownership of everything. I have no idea what I actually just did. Why are there 2 entries for several things, one "full control" and one "read" only? Does this matter?





But anyway, it still doesn't work. "Attributes", as in step 3 here doesn't display

This PC in Navigation Pane - Add or Remove in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Please give more details about it still does not work.

It looks like you do in your screenshot, but double check using step 4 in OPTION TWO below to make sure that you have "Full control" checked for the selected "Administrators".

Permissions - Allow or Deny Access to Users and Groups in Windows 8

 

"Administrators" does have full control. I don't know what the difference is between all the different possible owners, to be honest.

But the "Attributes" option still doesn't appear, just the Default and FolderValueFlags

 

Screenshots

 

Attributes should have been there by default, so that means it had been manually deleted at some point.

You will just need to add Attributes.

Right click in the right pane of the ShellFolder key, click on New and DWORD (32-bit) Value, type Attributes for the name of the DWORD, and press Enter.

Afterwards, you should be able to do the steps in the tutorial to change the data value of Attributes to b094010c.

 

OK, that seems to have worked, thanks.

Of course, now my desktop "PC" icon has gone. I have a shortcut there, but it keeps being relegated to last place on the desktop for some reason, even though I disabled the "autoarrange" option. I don't know why these options are there if they don't work. The "ENG" icon keeps coming back and I've removed that 2 different ways.

I appreciate the help people have tried to give me.

But I'll be changing back to Win7 as soon as I can find my install disks.

I shouldn't need 3rd party apps and weird registry changes to make simple display option changes, which were simple in Win7, I shouldn't need to continually make changes that Win10 keeps reverting every time I reboot, such as a boot-up display picture, yes I know it's minor but Win7 didn't do this. And I don't trust that future windows updates won't screw with things like "Classic Shell" in any case. And I don't like Windows continually trying to push inferior windows products on me when I have better programs, such as Picasa. Why would they program it so that I can't delete start menu items? Seriously, that's annoying.

I haven't noticed any speed improvements, and I'm not intending to get a touch screen, so I can't see any reason to keep Win10.

 

Minimise "This PC"

Sorted xP

 

No, because I have to do it every time I open a folder!

And it doesn't solve the other problems. Why do my desktop icons auto-sort when I've disabled autosort, for eg?

Why does the language "ENG" icon appear when I've repeatedly turned it off?

etc but you get the idea. These didn't happen in Win7 which seems to mean Win10 programmers deliberately changed them