Comments on: Desktop icons missing or disappeared

By: Someone

Someone — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:20:00 +0000

Dear Mike S.

Instead of getting upset, you could ask nicely. Really man, it helps.

Try holding down the windows key (looks like the windows flag logo) and then press the “r” key.

Again that’s: *Windows Key* + R

This is the shortcut for the Run command.

Then type cmd, hit enter, and you will have the command prompt you need.

Now try the “sfc /SCANNOW” command

Have a nice day.

By: Mike S.

Mike S. — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:24:21 +0000

The author of this article says that if you can’t get the desktop icons, taskbar, and Start Button back by using the first two solutions you should try going to Start, run, typing CMD and then typing sfc /SCANNOW.

How in the hell can you go to Start if it isn’t there? Nice job genius. You’re really brilliant.

By: Shom Mukherjee

Shom Mukherjee — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:23:41 +0000

facing the worst nightmare given by my PC. no desktop icons! and I can’t get them back!

By: Gavin

Gavin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:51:22 +0000

Phew! I let my kids play on my machine and this one totally freaked me out, almost did a system restore… Win XP Professional

Thank-you! Right-click, Show Desktop Items did the trick..

By: Alecs69

Alecs69 — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:43:17 +0000

It worked great, I got all my desktop icons back! yay!

By: Jay Ric

Jay Ric — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:25:04 +0000

thanks a lot, it fixed my problem.

By: sumanth

sumanth — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:11:29 +0000

Thanks. It worked.

By: Damian

Damian — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:05:35 +0000

Thanks for the info. I have Vista, and this fix worked perfectly when my toolbar & start button disappeared and the right click mouse button wouldn’t work.

Thanks again.

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:54:03 +0000

Thanks so much! I have spent hours/days trying to find the remedy for this issue. I put the explorer.exe in the “processes” using the New Task (run) even though there was already one in there. Nothing happened right away, so I took my chances and deleted the old one that had been showing up in there all along. Immediately, I had my desktop return!

By: Jeffery

Jeffery — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:30:53 +0000

Solved the problem.

Thank you

By: Ky

Ky — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:40:39 +0000

For those having issues still with windows 7, right click on the background, go to view and make sure that view icons is checked.

A symptom of this is that you cannot drag a box out on the desktop and you cannot see desktop icons.

By: Kaime

Kaime — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:53:30 +0000

Thanks for the information.

Helped me a great deal.

Regards,

Kaime KIPI

By: Dawa

Dawa — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 07:07:40 +0000

Bravo! you are the man!

thanks

By: Ravi

Ravi — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:27:06 +0000

I am facing same problem

I use the usual ctrl – alt – dlt…. Task Manager… – New Task and type explorer/explorer.exe and then my desktop icons re-appear and my task bar does aswell …but everytime I log off my computer It’s all gone again and I have to keep re-doing it all over again and it’s annoying and I guess there’s still something wrong with my PC if I have to keep doing it,….. maybe it’s a virus or something corrupt with my internet explorer (maybe something with the settings), so anyone got any solutions so I don’t have to keep doing it everytime I log back on my PC?

Thanks to who-ever replies with the correct answer/solution/fix.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Mon, 24 May 2010 06:05:03 +0000

you are awesome! I had lost all my icons and task bar and had tried for days to get them back but nothing. Then found your site and your solution worked! Thank you x 100!!!!!!!!!!!!