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I created several icons on the desktops of 4 computers after clean installed the computers with Windows 7 Profession (either with 32 bit or 64 bit versions). After a few days, some of the desktop icons disappear. However, when I click on the Desktop toolbar at the bottom of the Windows desktop, the icons that disappeared from the desktop were still present and available in the Desktop toolbar listing. I saw many users have the similar problem on the Internet but no proper solution for the problem. Any suggestion for the fix.
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There is an issue with an application called InfraRecorder, this is a CD\DVD recording software. When you install this software the Windows option to Show Desktop Icons is unselected. To Fix this just turn that option back on. To turn the option back on , do this:
I hope this helps.
Kevin
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Hi guys,
I found the cause of the misteriously disappearing Windows 7 desktop icons and the reason why Show desktop icons now and then gets unchecked.
It's INFRARECORDER !! Try for yourselves, when you start Infrarecorder and close it again, go have a look at "Show desktop icons", it is unchecked (but the icons are still there). Check it on again and start Infrarecorder.... it is unchecked again.
This Windows 7 "bug" is irritating me since the beginning and now I found the cause: It's Infrarecorder which is causing this problem.
Test it and please let me know and spread the news :-)
Thanks for the confirmation that I have not gone rond the bend already - someone else has the same problem! Unfortunately, I am only running Windows 7 on this computer, although it is netted to a Win XP Pro machine. So, not much help there. Perhaps someone else has an idea - I still think that Microsoft, with all the resources they have at hand, could (and shou find a way to fix this problem permanently.
Regards to all participants,
Philip.
There is a user at the office that is experiencing exactly what you are referring to--it's not INFRARECORDER because it isn't installed-just icons related to network shares etc. Looked at various solutions--noticed that themes can change icons; still fishing for an answer. Also this user uses multiple computers (flipping from a win xp box to windows 7 with a KVM switch)--but so do I, and this never occurs.
Ideas?
Maybe I am missing something here. I have tried to locate InfraRecorder on my system, but can find no trace of it, anywhere. It therefore cannot be that specific program that is causing the problem, but could the answer lie with the program itself, and that same set of instructions has been used by another program (which may be on my computer system). What I am saying is that there may be a set of instructions, used by the InfraRecorder programmer(s), that has come from another program, which also can cause such a problem?
Has anyone else had na similar thought, or am I alone in this?
Philip.
