Desktop and Taskbar icons disappear or reset every reboot. Windows 7. Error mapping network drive?
For some reason my taskbar shortcuts disappear every time I reboot my PC and desktop icons rearrange and/or reset to a particular size.
I googled it and can't find anything that fixes it. The only thing I can think of is to create a new user which should fix the problem, but I rather stick to my existing username.
When Wndows 7 is booted I can kill explorer.exe and open it and the taskbar icons reappear fine, but the desktop icons are still "messed up".
This windows is a fairly new installation, no viruses no **** like that
Any ideas will be much appreciated.
edit: apparently the source of the problem is my redirected Desktop folder to a network drive. I changed it back to its local path and all taskbar icons seem to work fine at the moment.
I think there is a problem the way network drives are "mapped" during logon process. Every time I start windows I get "error mapping network drive" only to see a red cross in my computer, but the drive is actually online and fully accessible, so why is windows bullying me with those mapping errors?
For some reason my taskbar shortcuts disappear every time I reboot my PC and desktop icons rearrange and/or reset to a particular size.
I googled it and can't find anything that fixes it. The only thing I can think of is to create a new user which should fix the problem, but I rather stick to my existing username.
When Wndows 7 is booted I can kill explorer.exe and open it and the taskbar icons reappear fine, but the desktop icons are still "messed up".
This windows is a fairly new installation, no viruses no **** like that
Any ideas will be much appreciated.
edit: apparently the source of the problem is my redirected Desktop folder to a network drive. I changed it back to its local path and all taskbar icons seem to work fine at the moment.
I think there is a problem the way network drives are "mapped" during logon process. Every time I start windows I get "error mapping network drive" only to see a red cross in my computer, but the drive is actually online and fully accessible, so why is windows bullying me with those mapping errors?
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