Windows 7 All my desktop icons gone

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DJburner

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• Jul 20, 2013

#2

Hy, rightclick, view, show desktop icons.

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jason591

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• Jul 22, 2013

Thread Author #3

Yea i tried that and it didnt work.

 

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davidhk129

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• Jul 26, 2013

#4

Suggestions :
1. Do a system restore.
Pick a date when your desktop icons were present as your restore point.

2. Rebuild your icon cache. Yours might be corrupted.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html

 

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Josephur

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• Jul 27, 2013

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If you have System Restore on with Previous Versions of files enabled, you can simply browse to C:\Users\YourUsername and right click on the Desktop folder, chose the Previous Versions tab and restore files from there.

 

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Mike

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• Jul 27, 2013

#6

How to rebuild icon cache?

This issue can occur by corrupted icon cache. To fix the issue, please rebuild icon cache.


1. Click the Start button, and click Computer .

2. On the Tool bar, click Organize and choose Folder and Search Options .

3. Click the View tab, and check to select the Show hidden files and folders option , and click OK .

4. Then, enter the following directory:


%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local


5. Find the IconCache.db file, and rename it as IconCache.db.old.

6. Close the window, and restart the computer.

See also:

Icon cache gets corrupted

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Ralph Bromley

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• Jul 28, 2013

#7

For me desktop icons on windows seems moot now thanks to the superbar.
Then again I usually like a clean desktop free of junk, its something we Mac and Linux users can agree on.

 

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