Desktop diapeared on Windows 7, had to do a system restore?

[sastusbulbas]

HI all,

I have just had to do a sysyem restore, I turned the PC on this morning and everything inc the waste basket was missing from my desktop.

I did a system retsore and it all re-appeared.

Last night I had downloaded Winrar (for which Avira gave a few warnings and W7 did not seem to agree had been set up right)

I also downloaded Infrarecorder and Nero 9.

These three programs have disappeared? I wanted to uninstall Winrar as I thought it may have caused the problem but cannot find anything related to it or Nero or Infrarecorder?

The Cue file I downloaded to fix my home dvd player was there?

Action centre states my graphic card driver stopped working at 09.15 this morning, and says this has happened twice?

It also says Firefox stopped working at 09.11 this morning, I booted up around this time.

And it tells me my files are not backed up

So I now have no idea if one of last nights downloaded programs such as Winrar or if teh graphics card driver caused teh desktop to disappear?

PS when I say disapear, my clock and weather icons were still in the upper right corner, my custom dekstop background was still there, and when I clicked on computer, then desktop, all my stuff inc files and pictures which I left on desktop were still there?

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Steve

 

[russ0r]

Right click on desktop -> View -> 'Show desktop icons'

It's done this to me a few times. Not sure if I did it by accident or if some program I installed did it for me. Either way it's a pretty simple fix

 

[sastusbulbas]

LOL

Still... I am wondering...does W7 remove programs and all traces automatically when restoring to an earlier date?