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    desktop icons disappeared info

    hey guys new here.

    installed win7 a few days ago and today when booting up all of my desktop icons are gone. everything is still in the c:/users/%user%desktop folder, but nothing will show up on the actual desktop.

    not sure why this is happening but seen another post about is as well. you can try two things to fix it:

    right click desktop>view>show desktop items

    if that does not work (didn't for me)

    right click desktop>personalization>change desktop icons>restore default>ok

    then do

    right click desktop>view>show desktop items

    should come up after that. not sure what the glitch is in it but it seems to be a minor nuisance, easily fixed
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    Unhappy

    Having the same problems as you but none of that worked. I even tried deleting the icon cache so that it could rebuild itself and also tried restore point to no avail. My gadgets are also gone.
    Sure would appreciate it if some one could help.

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    Is your UAC turned on ???
    The Gadgets and Folder Icon customization will not work unless UAC is set to at least the minimum annoyance level.
    This is what I've found so far, Maybe this is a problem in viewing the desktop also ??
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    Smile

    Thank you very much for your help. I don't know what a UAC is but I resolved the problem on my own. First, I found the place where it says to turn the desktop on, at the right side of the taskbar. I did, and my gadgets came back but my icons didn't. By intuition I changed the theme, and that did it.
    Thanks again.
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    UAC = "User Account Control" ... also know as ... "User Annoyance Control"
    Found at ... Control Panel >> User Accounts >> Change User Account Control settings

    Looks like M$ is trying to force us to keep it turned on
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    Exclamation

    I hate UAC also. I keep it off 100% of the time. Bah!!

    If you have 2 monitors. I try this trick [Windows key + P] this toggles to clone and dualview. I toggle it to something other than what I have [dualview] like to clone or single monitor, then toggle it back to Dualview.

    Maybe it will work with single monitor also.

    Also, sometimes I do the CTRL+ALT+DEL combo to get to the main logoff screen. then I just cancel it.

    hope one of those works for you. :-)

    ~TZ
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    Thank you for enlighteing me on the user account annoyance setting.
    Very helpful!!!!
    Qbnito

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    answer:
    right click desktop>view>show desktop icons

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    Smile The Windows Key+P trick worked for me

    I couldn't right-click on the desktop anywhere -- believe me, that was the *first* thing I tried.

    Using the Windows Key + P key, the icons reappeared as soon as I switched to single monitor ("Computer only") mode, and stayed visible when I switched back to multimon mode ("Extend").

    Signed, Happy Camper.
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    I just had this issue and for some reason after reboot they were still gone. I did notice that an instance of "Windows Explorer" was still running in the task manager (after reboot because I have folders set to restore on reboot) Once I canceled that instance of explorer, everything re-appeared.

    lets roll out SP1 OK! I don't want tyo have to refer to this OS as Bluescreen7

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