Every once in a while a desktop icon vanishes ?????

thehappyman said:

Yes, I have had times when ALL the icons on the desktop get jumbled - but that is quite rare - happens maybe twice a year after I have some kind of program malfunction.

As far as your icons automatically rearranging themselves for some reason, you might consider un-checking the "auto-arrange" option on your desktop "View" properties... if you currently have it checked. Also the "align to grid" should be unchecked, if you want to be able to place your desktop icons wherever you want to and never be bothered by Windows' interfering.



That way you are in complete control. You should never again see the mysterious symptom you describe... whatever the actual cause might be.

I used to keep tons of icons on my Desktop and I had a similar problem occasionally, with icons vanishing --- or sometimes when I saved additional shortcuts to the Desktop their icons just would never show up. I finally figured out that I must've had too many icons on my Desktop because when I deleted some, others mysteriously reappeared. Why don't you try deleting a few and see if that makes a difference.

Also, another possibility is that sometimes the ones near the edges of the screen somehow slip 'off the screen' into. . . I don't know where --- cyberspace???? I've had that happen too, and occasionally if I put my cursor at the very edge of the screen I can manage to drag one or two back on the screen. Crazy, huh?

Devux said:

Imperfect1 said:

I used to keep tons of icons on my Desktop and I had a similar problem occasionally, with icons vanishing --- or sometimes when I saved additional shortcuts to the Desktop their icons just would never show up. I finally figured out that I must've had too many icons on my Desktop because when I deleted some, others mysteriously reappeared. Why don't you try deleting a few and see if that makes a difference.

Also, another possibility is that sometimes the ones near the edges of the screen somehow slip 'off the screen' into. . . I don't know where --- cyberspace???? I've had that happen too, and occasionally if I put my cursor at the very edge of the screen I can manage to drag one or two back on the screen. Crazy, huh?

That sounds like a resolution problem. Kinda like your resolution is set higher than your screen will let you display.

Yes, my resolution is set at a high level and my DPI is also set to the higher scale choice (120) -- both needed to give me larger, more readable fonts. There's always a trade off --- in my case (and perhaps the OP's as well) I had to set my resolution and DPI higher to get the readability that I need.