Comments on: Restore Missing Desktop Icons in Windows 7 or Vista

By: ColdFusion Developer

ColdFusion Developer — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:33:48 +0000

Unfortunately this trick didn’t work for me. I think that the problem occurred when I switched monitors. I believe that Win7 thinks the icons are in view but actually they seem to be off the screen somewhere.

By: fsk

fsk — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:20:35 +0000

I have lost all the icons on my vista desktop

By: Travlain

Travlain — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:56:40 +0000

flabdablet thank you so much..I know a bit about comps and had tried all the other suggestions and virus searchs..My daughter had played with the comp while i was asleep and must have unchecked it..I didnt even think to look for show desktop icons under view with a right click

By: Roberta

Roberta — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:58:10 +0000

Thanx so much for this info. I’ve been trying to recover my recycle bin icon ever since a long night of work left me so groggy that I deleted instead of emptying. Never thought it would be so easy to restore

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:52:04 +0000

Ben apparently the last windows update has guffed something up. Same thing happened to me. After the update I had no internet, then I reboot and internet is back. Next reboot and same as you poof no desktop or task manager. I went into windows system update and restore to prior to the most recent windows updates and everything was back to normal. That is totally shoddy of MS. Someone is going to get their ass chewed out for that.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:41:49 +0000

Hifriends..
just help.. I havewindows vista and my desktop is completely blank. If i creat any shortcut , nothing comes and shortcut is created only on desktop folder….

plz suggest me ..

thanks
ben

By: ratana

ratana — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:46:08 +0000

Thank you for your helping. I hope you still do like this.

By: kelly lou

kelly lou — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:07:13 +0000

Thank you this was very helpful indeed…

By: Dan Linstedt

Dan Linstedt — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:37:09 +0000

Amazing… I set the icons back, changed the theme from windows classic to vista and back again, and poof, all icons restored.

Thank-you so much!

By: kris

kris — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:40:16 +0000

Thank you for the help it was so easy…