Can't locate lost icons on desktop?
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>Right click on your desktop,a menue will pop up,put your cursor on Arrange Icons By,another menue will pop up,check Show Desktop Icons.
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If you mean desktop icons, and literally all of them have disappeared then it looks like she accidentally stopped them from showing.\nTo bring them back follow these simple steps:\n\nRight click somewhere on the desktop\nOn the popup menu hover over 'Arrange Icons By', a new menu pop's up\nTowards the bottom of this menu is an option 'Display Desktop Icons' - Confirm that it does not have a tick next to it, and left click it.\n\nThis should bring all your desktop icons back :)
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Make sure you have the Quick Launch bar active on your task bar.  If the "Show Desktop" icon is deleted from Quick Launch, the procedure below will recreate the file.\n\nOpen Notepad and enter the following text: \n\n[Shell]\nCommand=2\nIconFile=explorer.exe,3\n[Taskbar]\nCommand=ToggleDesktop\n\nSave the new file as Show Desktop.scf then drag and drop the icon on the Quick Launch bar or whatever location you want the shortcut to appear.  You can also hold down the Windows Button + D to show the desktop.
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Go to start, my computer (if you don't have the desktop icon), C drive, program files, windows media center then under that there will be folders with different items in it, if it's not there, then if it's not there, you would go back to C drive and look under the windows folder.  Sometimes they are stored in both places so you might need to look at both.
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That indicated that you have moved the system tray ( Blue bar), press and hold the bluebar and move it to Down side. It will be list icons Desktop ons back.
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Basic OS Icons in Windows are stored in shell32.dll, you can of course navigate (after choosing change icon) to any programs icon that you want.
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Right click on your desktop, hover over "Arrange Icons by" and in the sub menu there is a option that says "Show Desktop Icons". Make sure there is a check mark next to it.
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Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE until ur computer restarts. \nDon't open the icons from the desktop if the problem persists. Open them from Windows Explorer (Start, Programs)
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restore ur system in back date and try to locate!!!!
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The Show Desktop icon is not an ordinary program shortcut. If the icon is deleted, the procedure for re-creating the icon is not obvious. To manually re-create the Show Desktop icon, follow these steps:\n1. Click Start , click Run, type notepad, and then click OK.\n2. In Notepad, type the following text on individual lines:\n[Shell]\nCommand=2\nIconFile=explorer.exe,3\n[Taskbar]\nCommand=ToggleDesktop\n3. On the File menu, click Save As, and then save the file to your desktop as Show Desktop.scf.\n\nNote Notepad might automatically append a .txt extension to the file name. Remove this extension if present. The file name should be Show Desktop.scf.\nThe file must now be moved to the correct folder in the user profile to appear in the Quick Launch toolbar. To manually do this, use one of the following methods.\n\n\n\n1.Use Windows Explorer to locate the following folders:\n\nMicrosoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows 98\nWindows&#92;Application Data&#92;Microsoft&#92;Internet Explorer&#92;Quick Launch\n\nMicrosoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows 2000, and Microsoft Windows XP\nC:&#92;Documents and Settings&#92;Username&#92;Application Data&#92;Microsoft&#92;Internet Explorer&#92;Quick Launch\n\nNote Username refers to the account name where you want to put the icon.\n2.Use the mouse to drag the Show Desktop.scf file to the Quick Launch folder.\n3.Click Move Here.
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it may still be in your recycle bin if so just click and say restore, otherwise got to your start menu, all programs, find your internet explorer and right click on it there should be a send to option, go down to desktop, create shortcut\n\nif I read your question correctly this should work
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well my friend... the best way would be to right click on your desktop -> go on "arrange icons by" then from the sub menu check or uncheck "Show desktop icons"...i guess this is the best way to do it... good luck ;)
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Maybe the shortcut is just gone, search your files
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Reinstall all the lost applications
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Open your start menu, click on search.  Type in the word paint, tell it to search all files and folders.  When the system locates the program paint, open it and look for the desktop shortcut, right-click create desktop shortcut. that should fix you up
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try system restore....probably your best choice unless they were externally deleted