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How do I restore lost desktop icons

So, I just booted my computer a few hours ago and pretty much all of my desktop icons are gone. I have tried the explorer.exe fix, the Show hidden files and drives fix and none work. Theres only Recycle Bin, Adobe Reader X, Audacity, Google Chrome, HP Support Assistant, McAfee Total Protection, Office, Notepad++, paint.net, Screencast-O-Matic, Skype, Snapfish, Steam, Toontown Rewritten, TP-LINK Wireless Configuration Utility and WinRAR left on my desktop. Any solutions? I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1 64-bit with a AMD A6-6310 APU with AMD Radeon R4 Graphics 1.80 GHz processor. Manufactured by Hewlett Packard. Thanks for reading

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Hello,

As per the issue description, I understand that you have lost the desktop icons accidently. We are sorry for the inconvenience caused. I will certainly help you however, I would appreciate if you can provide us the following information to help us understand the issue better.

1. Did you make any significant system changes recently?
2. Which all icons are missing?

Method 1

In the mean while you may follow the on screen steps in the kb article mentioned below and check if it helps.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2670504

Method 2
You may also try the suggestion suggested by Bikesh T replied on April 9, 2010 and check if it helps.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/windows-7-missing-desktop-application-icons/c031fba8-3e05-4080-89b2-e8a89c460a6b

Hope this helps, if issue persist please write us back we will be glad to assist you.

Regards

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Last updated April 24, 2018 Views 383 Applies to: