is desktop.ini a virus file?

In our computer, often encounter a name Desktop.ini file, for many computer small white friends, see Desktop.ini files are relatively unfamiliar, so that someone mistakenly think Desktop.ini file is a virus file. In fact, Desktop.ini file does not belong to the virus file, the following small series for everyone popular science.

　　What file is Desktop.ini?

Professionally speaking, the Desktop.ini file is a system-identifiable file that stores the user's personalized settings for the folder, such as changing the folder icon, background color, etc. The configuration information is stored in the Desktop.ini file in this folder, and the user can use Notepad to open the Desktop.ini configuration file, which is a code configuration file, as shown in the following figure.

Figure to open the Desktop.ini file with Notepad

In layman's parlance, the desktop.ini is equivalent to each folder control center, controls this folder should use what color, what should have the attribute and so on, the default is May delete, but if you set to modify the folder attribute, Then deleting this desktop.ini configuration file will cause the previously set content to fail and revert to the default settings.

　　Can Desktop.ini delete it?

The Desktop.ini file belongs to the folder's profile, the user can delete it, it will not affect the folder after deletion, but will make the folder revert to the default settings. Another Desktop.ini file is not a virus file, of course, some virus files may be disguised as _desktop.ini files, then may be the virus, you can use anti-virus software killing can.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that Desktop.ini file defaults to System configuration accessories, the size of only a few KB or so, but if the user set more items, will also lead to desktop.ini files become very large, this file if the volume is very large, open this folder is prone to death, so there will often be some computer master spoof, will be a movie text Pieces into Desktop.ini files, and then placed in the computer desktop or folder, causing the computer card to die.

Desktop.ini file is too large, it is strongly recommended to delete

Therefore, if the Desktop.ini file is not large, do not need to delete, if the Desktop.ini file up to hundred M, then recommend deletion, lest cause the computer to open the file card.