Disappearing Desktop

::When either right clicking or dragging icons on my desktop every icon
disappears along with all toolbars and just left with desktop wallpaper,
the only option is to re-boot. I believe it may be a problem with
Windows Explorer. Anyone else had this problem and how to you fix it?::


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Myrtle1

Myrtle1;1049161 Wrote:
> ::When either right clicking or dragging icons on my desktop every icon
> disappears along with all toolbars and just left with desktop wallpaper,
> the only option is to re-boot. I believe it may be a problem with
> Windows Explorer. Anyone else had this problem and how to you fix it?::

Have you installed SP1?If not you have to update it

'The Windows desktop may stop updating correctly after a Windows
Vista-based computer has been running for an extended period of time'
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932406)

Above hotfix is already included in SP1.

It could be also probably caused by thubnail cache.Try clear thubnail
cache +restart

'Clearing the Windows Vista thumbnails cache'
(http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wind...ta-thumbnails/)


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Flavius

Thanks for your reply.

SP1 is installed along with all windows updates, tried your thumbnail
cache clearance but the fault is still there. Have tried to move, right
click icons but still they all disappear.


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Myrtle1

Probably built-in tool doesn't remove completly thubnail cache files
only empty them - I think

http://www.vistax64.com/general-disc...nail-icon.html

(although is completly another thread)

Try reset thubnail cache manually.After restart system will rebuild
thubnail cache:

Run system in safe mode,navigate to folder

*C:\Users\<your account>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer*

and there you'll find 6 *.db files ->remove them + restart.


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Flavius

Ok, I've deleted all the .db files manually, restarted windows and it
worked......only for a few minutes then all the icons disappeared again
:cry:

Roll on Windows 7, I hope it worked better than Vista!


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Myrtle1

Go into disk cleanup and remove all the thumbnails. That should fix the
issue.



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"Myrtle1" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Ok, I've deleted all the .db files manually, restarted windows and it
> worked......only for a few minutes then all the icons disappeared again
> :cry:
>
> Roll on Windows 7, I hope it worked better than Vista!
>
>
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> Myrtle1
>

Myrtle1;1050164 Wrote:
> Ok, I've deleted all the .db files manually, restarted windows and it
> worked......only for a few minutes then all the icons disappeared again
> :cry:
>
> Roll on Windows 7, I hope it worked better than Vista!
I suspect any program cause this

Run msconfig and disable all in startup
(look METHOD TWO in below link)
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/79...e-disable.html
+restart

And check results


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Flavius