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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 :-)
Thanku so much friend for your help :)
Thanku so much friend for your help :)
The problem that "Kevin" gave a cure for is NOT the most common problem of "Icons missing" from the desktop. I and many others are having a problem that happens once a week like clockwork; where 6 (out of 128) desktop icons in my case; come up missing when I boot up my computer.
It is the same 6 every Sunday. One of these desktop icons is Window's "solitaire"; created by using the "send to desktop feature". The other 5 are created using Window's "create shortcut" feature.
NOTHING but a silly "workaround" has worked; and that is unacceptable. My computer does NOT have the application "InfraRecorder" in it. But the problem repeats itself every Sunday. At NO time is the "show desktop" icon checkmark missing in "view" on the desktop. It is ALWAYS checked; but I STILL have the problem.
I am so sick of kudos and lauding "fixes" that do NOTHING for many of us; on website after website with a myriad of known problems.
Please: Because a fix works for you does NOT mean that is the cause. It might be; but it may NOT work for countless other problems exhibiting the same symptoms. In other words: be careful of putting one's "pen" in gear before their brain gets engaged.
The problem I am having IS a Microsoft problem; and they "NEED" to FIX it; and make it available as an "update".
Damn their sorry hides
