re: a problem with the desktop icons

This is an Acer Aspire 5749, OS Win7 Home 32bit. Last night when I shut down the laptop and went to bed the desktop was fine. All the icons were were they were supposed to be. When I started the laptop up this morning, the desktop was blank except for the background picture. See the screen capture picture bellow. I can still get at the desktop icons via the Windows Explorer icon in the quick launch bar in the lower left corner. I also had to change the home screen in Firefox back to Kndu 25 (the local tv stations web page). I don't remember what was there when I opened Firefox. Also Bing is set to be the default search engine again in Firefox. I reset the default search engine back to Google. I already tried a cold reboot by letting the laptop sit for a minute or 2 off with the main battery pulled out, no good. I also tried a system restore to an earlier date and time. The system restore couldn't complete the system restore after the reboot. I am out of ideas on what to try next, short of wiping out the partition and reinstalling everything. Any ideas?

Steve

What desk image are you talking about? If what I am reading between the lines as to what you are trying to say. Is that I made this up and I do have my desktop icons. I screen captured the desktop with snagit and Thats the way my desktop looks now.

AddRAM said:

Use the disk image that I just know you created earlier :)

lets see if it is a simple thing. right click desktop and then choose view and make sure show desktop icons is checked

I use Fences (desktop icon arranger and some more) and when you double-click on desktop, it hides all "Fences" and icons. Looks exactly like this.

Another I can think of is that somehow you have set a 2nd monitor (TV perhaps) and your icons are actually there.

If you don't have the image AddRAM mentioned, you can try a Clean Startup.
Troubleshoot Application Conflicts by Performing a Clean Startup

Thanks Oscer1. It was a simple fix that I didn't know about. The "show desktop icons" somehow got un-checked.

Steve

oscer1 said:

lets see if it is a simple thing. right click desktop and then choose view and make sure show desktop icons is checked

Your welcome