All desktop icons have vanished

Hi all,

Hope you can help!! All of my icons on the desktop have gone, including the
system icons of my document folder, recycle bin and such.

If I click on toolbars on the bottom bar (can't remember the name) I can
select the Desktop toolbar which still contains all the icons. When I try to
drag the icon to the actual desktop (off the toolbar) it shows a little
folder symbol with a green plus next to it. When I let go off the mouse
button it doesn't put the icon on the desktop. I also cannot create new
shortcuts on the desktop - but they do show up on the toolbar!!

I've run out of ideas - can anyone help!!

Craig

fiddickc;653951 Wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Hope you can help!! All of my icons on the desktop have gone, including
> the
> system icons of my document folder, recycle bin and such.
>
> If I click on toolbars on the bottom bar (can't remember the name) I
> can
> select the Desktop toolbar which still contains all the icons. When I
> try to
> drag the icon to the actual desktop (off the toolbar) it shows a little
> folder symbol with a green plus next to it. When I let go off the mouse
> button it doesn't put the icon on the desktop. I also cannot create new
> shortcuts on the desktop - but they do show up on the toolbar!!
>
> I've run out of ideas - can anyone help!!
>
> Craig


I can't double-check here, because I'm not by a Vista machine now (I'm
in the process of rebuilding mine, with an AMD Phenom x4 CPU), but the
procedure in Windows XP is as follows:
- Right-click the desktop
- Click the "Arrange Icons By" menu item, to open another pop-up
menu.
- Click "Show Desktop Icons" to add a checkI'll report back to you with the correct procedures in Vista, but that
will only be in a couple of hours when I'm done (This is a monster of a
machine I'm building, and I keep getting interrupted!)


--
dzomlija

_____________________
Peter Alexander Dzomlija
-Do you hear, huh? The Alpha and The Omega? Death and Rebirth? And as
you die, so shall I be Reborn...-

:cry:-U--nfortunately, my rig (As seen in
http://www.vistax64.com/general-disc...tml#post533290)
went south thanks to mother nature and a lightning bolt to the mains
supply that my UPS could not stop. Now I'm just waiting for the
insurance payout, so I can build a new machine.-'
' (http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/e...zomlija/Venus/)

Right click on desktop. Go to "View" / "Show Desktop Icons". Check it!


"fiddickc" <> wrote in message
news:A08459E4-503F-4C39-B119-...
> Hi all,
>
> Hope you can help!! All of my icons on the desktop have gone, including
> the
> system icons of my document folder, recycle bin and such.
>
> If I click on toolbars on the bottom bar (can't remember the name) I can
> select the Desktop toolbar which still contains all the icons. When I try
> to
> drag the icon to the actual desktop (off the toolbar) it shows a little
> folder symbol with a green plus next to it. When I let go off the mouse
> button it doesn't put the icon on the desktop. I also cannot create new
> shortcuts on the desktop - but they do show up on the toolbar!!
>
> I've run out of ideas - can anyone help!!
>
> Craig
>
>
> ---
> avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean.
> Virus Database (VPS): 080320-0, 03/20/2008
> Tested on: 3/20/2008 3:07:20 AM
> avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software.
> http://www.avast.com
>
>
>



---
avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean.
Virus Database (VPS): 080320-0, 03/20/2008
Tested on: 3/20/2008 3:09:40 AM
avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software.
http://www.avast.com

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> Right click on desktop. Go to "View" / "Show Desktop Icons". Check it!
>
>
> "fiddickc" <> wrote in message
> news:A08459E4-503F-4C39-B119-...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Hope you can help!! All of my icons on the desktop have gone, including
> > the
> > system icons of my document folder, recycle bin and such.
> >
> > If I click on toolbars on the bottom bar (can't remember the name) I can
> > select the Desktop toolbar which still contains all the icons. When I try
> > to
> > drag the icon to the actual desktop (off the toolbar) it shows a little
> > folder symbol with a green plus next to it. When I let go off the mouse
> > button it doesn't put the icon on the desktop. I also cannot create new
> > shortcuts on the desktop - but they do show up on the toolbar!!
> >
> > I've run out of ideas - can anyone help!!
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
> > ---
> > avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean.
> > Virus Database (VPS): 080320-0, 03/20/2008
> > Tested on: 3/20/2008 3:07:20 AM
> > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software.
> > http://www.avast.com
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> ---
> avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean.
> Virus Database (VPS): 080320-0, 03/20/2008
> Tested on: 3/20/2008 3:09:40 AM
> avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software.
> http://www.avast.com
>
>
>
Thanks for the help guys. I didn't even know that existed!! Did what was
suggested and it is all back again. I don't know how I got rid of them though
but not to worry the problem is solved.

Thanks heaps!!