Desktop icons dissapeared, broken desktop...

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Hello win7 forums I am new and it is nice to meet you. Now down to business. I upgraded my laptop about a month ago to Windows 7 Ultimate from Vista. The other day I came on and none of my desktop icons were on my desktop. I restarted my computer a few times hoping that would work but, it has not. I also realized that my highlighting option when holding down the mouse button and dragging also does not work. I am not sure what to do about this and I could use some help. Thank you for your time and help:geek:
 
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Hello win7 forums I am new and it is nice to meet you. Now down to business. I upgraded my laptop about a month ago to Windows 7 Ultimate from Vista. The other day I came on and none of my desktop icons were on my desktop. I restarted my computer a few times hoping that would work but, it has not. I also realized that my highlighting option when holding down the mouse button and dragging also does not work. I am not sure what to do about this and I could use some help. Thank you for your time and help:geek:


Hi casper and welcome

Do you have a back up to restore from a point in time before you had the problem?

Do you have the win 7 dvd?

Ken J+
 

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[email protected]
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Right click desktop, under views check show desktop icons has a tick next to it
 

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Right click desktop, under views check show desktop icons has a tick next to it


That was easy, thanks a million Pauly:thumbsup:. I wonder how that got unchecked.
 

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Custom
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AMD Phenom 940 x4 Black edition
Motherboard
Asus M3A78-em
Memory
4 GB
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon
Hard Drives
3 500 GB HDD Seagates
PSU
650 watt spiders
Case
SopranoRS
Cooling
3 L.E.D fans 1 Quiet and Cool fan
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Microsoft v6000
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Microsoft v6000
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