Imagine, as usual, you turned off your computer last night, and today you turn it on and after downloading you see that all the shortcuts from the desktop are gone ! What happened? Where did everything go? Do not panic, there may be several reasons for this strange behavior of your computer friend. In this material we will try to figure out what happened, and most importantly, how to return the missing badges.
If all the shortcuts from the desktop completely disappeared, and it is virgin empty, then it is possible that the reason here is very simple, and even a child can solve this "problem". But it can be different, it happens that such symptoms can signal great trouble. Let's start figuring out what really happened.
First possible reason
So, if you have lost shortcuts from the desktop, the first thing you should do is check, maybe some joker just deleted them to the trash. If the computer does not have a password and other family members or colleagues at work have access to it, then this option is quite appropriate. How to make sure that just such an unpleasant misunderstanding happened? Very simple, create a new folder or file on the desktop. If everything went as usual and you are looking at a new object that appears on your screen, it means that someone really deleted your shortcuts.
But in the case when the object is created, but it is not visible on the desktop, it means jump to reason number two.
The second reason
I have seen this picture more than once, a person says that he has lost shortcuts from the desktop, and when you come to the computer, it turns out that he accidentally right-clicked on an empty spot and chose the option “hide icons” in the drop-down menu.
Checking this under Windows XP is quite simple, right-click on the desktop, go to the menu item "Arrange", there we check the checkbox next to "Display icons", if it is checked, remove it.
In Windows 7, the sequence of actions is even simpler, right-click on the table, go to the "View" menu and check the same checkbox there. If it is, remove it and rejoice at the icons that have appeared.
But if this didn’t help either, then you should go to the third point.
Third option
If all else fails and you still observe the same emptiness on the screen, it means that most likely your computer is attacked by a virus that accidentally (happens this) or intentionally (which happens much more often) made your labels disappear from the desktop.
It should be noted here that the third reason is, as a rule, a complex disappearance. Not only shortcuts disappear, but also the Start menu and the lower toolbar.
This happens when, for some reason, the "Explorer" process refuses to start when the system starts. But more often some virus prevents him from doing this.
Since he is responsible for all the shortcuts, the taskbar and the Start menu.
To help your computer, you can try the following steps.
- We call the dispatcher. In Windows XP, click Ctrl + Alt + Delet; in Seven Ctrl + Shift + Escape.
- Click "File", then select "New Task> Run."
- A window will open in which you need to type "Explorer.exe" (without quotes, of course) and click "ok."
Once all these actions are done in the correct order, a desktop with all the shortcuts and the Start menu with all panels should appear.
But if you get the error "File not found" (this also happens), then this file is either damaged or simply not in the system. How to get it back? There are two ways - simple and fast (ask a friend and copy from a USB flash drive to the Windows folder), or install it from the drive that was used during the initial installation of the OS.
Then be sure to check your computer with antivirus tools, it is possible that such a result is not accidental, but is caused by the activity of virus programs.
If such a useful tool as System Restore works correctly for you, then you can try to use it to quickly fix all problems.
I hope that thanks to this article, you will understand where the shortcuts from the desktop of your PC disappeared.