John
The problem is that instead of creating a shortcut to your exe, you just copied the whole exe into the desktop, so when the program runs, it creates the foxuser file in there. Copy the exe to your work directory, and create a shortcut to it on the desktop, then you can delete the foxuser files from your desktop.

Jaime

>when i do an installation and run the exe for the first time, 2 'foxuser' files pop up on the desktop. how can i prevent this?
>tia!