Desktop shortcuts disappear when renamed

[Leeto]

Hi, I'm new to these forums. I just installed Windows 7 Professional, and I noticed something.

When I rename one of my desktop shortcuts, the icon disappears. When I refresh with F5, the icon shows up but in the top left.

Is there any way to fix this? It isn't a big deal but it's getting a little annoying.

 

[Dinesh]

Not sure what you're looking. You can right click anywhere on the desktop and click View>Auto Arrange icons to fix it.

 

[Mark]

Hi, I'm new to these forums. I just installed Windows 7 Professional, and I noticed something.

When I rename one of my desktop shortcuts, the icon disappears. When I refresh with F5, the icon shows up but in the top left.

Is there any way to fix this? It isn't a big deal but it's getting a little annoying.

I had the same thing happen to me just after a clean install but it only happened the one time, and I quite regularly rename things on the Desktop, maybe it's something that only occurs on the first boot, but I'm not sure what would be the cause or how to fix it.

 

[Leeto]

I mean when I rename the shortcut, the moment I press enter to confirm the rename the icon vanishes. The only way to get it to show up again is to refresh the desktop.

 

[Dinesh]

As said by Mr. Grim, restart windows and install all updates. this might fix it.

 

[TheTeZ]

this problems a little annoying

 

[TheTeZ]

fixes?

 

[MacGyvr]

sfc /scannow or
reinstall clean

 

[TheTeZ]

it was a brand new install on a new hard drive, it seems to be an issue with business/ultimate

 

[Zirro]

Disappearing Desktop Icons

I have exactly the same problem on Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

It seems to have started after the last lot of Tuesday Microsoft patches.

One thing I have narrowed it down to is that only the icons that are also on the Public Desktop are affected.

I know I could take ownership of the public desktop and that would probably fix it, but that is a clumsy solution which may affect other users (if I allow them near my PC ).

I have already tried sfc /scannow, which indicated my system files are OK.

Any ideas anyone?

Update:
OK. After multiple restarts etc since my original post 2 weeks ago, I have now done a clean install and the problem is still there.

So I took ownership of the public desktop & it made no difference.

I still have to manually refresh the desktop after renaming any of my shortcut icons that are also on the public desktop.

 

[Zirro]

Looks like I may have found why my renamed desktop icons won't auto-refresh.

Extract of Log:
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.42
Database version: 3307
Windows 6.1.7600
Internet Explorer 8.0.7600.16385
7-Dec-09 14:29:33
mbam-log-2009-12-07 (14-29-04).txt
Scan type: Full Scan (C:\|D:\|E:\|F:\|)
Registry Data Items Infected: 1
Registry Keys Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Registry Values Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Registry Data Items Infected:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoActiveDesktopChanges (Hijack.DisplayProperties) -> Bad: (1) Good: (0) -> No action taken.

I will correct the registry value and see how it goes.


Update:
I tried this and it didn't work so I also set the value of the key immediately above this one

.......\NoActiveDesktop to 0 (zero decimal) and it worked.

I can now edit my desktop icons without having to manually refresh.

 

[TheTeZ]

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