All my desktop icons disappeared from my Windows 7 desktop

Anonymous
2009-11-30T08:07:29+00:00

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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Anonymous
2010-03-26T16:06:25+00:00

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:

  1. Right click the desktop
  2. Select View -> Show Desktop Icon
  3. Make sure the option is checked.

I hope this helps.

Kevin

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Anonymous
2010-02-21T11:51:42+00:00

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 :-)

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-10-12T21:17:14+00:00

    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:

     

    1. Right click the desktop
    2. Select View -> Show Desktop Icon
    3. Make sure the option is checked.

    I hope this helps.

    Kevin

    If you find that my answer was what you were looking for, please remember to click the "mark as answer" box below!

    I have tried every thing yall have all said to do regarding this. and it doesnt work for me. for one, when i right click the desktop there is no "View" when i right click the desktop. when i get to shop desktop icons, they are always already checked. what do i do?

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-10-02T11:23:25+00:00

    Hey, Philip -- did you see the windows updates posted by PepsiMan (on page 12 of this thread), and does that help you?

    This is the official "fix" until SP2

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2642357

    It doesn't pertain to my situation, but at least it shows that Microsoft is attempting related fixes. 

    In my situation (all icons moving to a different, or invisible, 2nd monitor), I finally found a way to *prevent* it most of the time:  leaving the 2nd monitor connected,

    BUT TURNED OFF DURING STARTUP,

    the first time the laptop gets started up in my other environment / with the other 2nd monitor.  When startup is complete, I turn the 2nd monitor on.

    Being connected (with HDMI cable) has the laptop recognize the 2nd monitor and size the desktop,

    while being turned off is enough that it doesn't move desktop icons to it. 

    Good luck,

    --Doug

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