[WildPuck]

My daughters friend gave her a cd with some files on it and when she viewed the files on our desktop, there were shortcuts on the cd to our turbotax files that are on our machine. I put the cd in my laptop, which also has our tax files, and the shortcuts were gone. I know that these files are not on the cd but how and why did they appear when the cd is in my desktop?

windows vista

[DoubleHelix]

Shortcuts are files. Unless you're writing those files to the disk, they're not there. You must be looking at another part of the Windows Explorer interface. Post a screen shot showing where you see these files on the disk.