Icons AWOL from Desktop - Please Help!

[Aderes Devorah]

Hi all

For some reason unbeknownst to me, Windows 7 has decided to stop showing files that I have downloaded to my desktop on the desktop.

If I download a file to the desktop, when the download has finished nothing is there; no icon whatsoever.

If a then do a restart, the file appears on the desktop!

Am I not logging in as a user that has access to "all" of the desktop (even though there is only one user - Me)?

I have 'Show desktop icons' ticked.

Please help me because this is driving me round the bend.

Regards

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[Aderes Devorah]

It's reminding you that you're a bad person for downloading stuff to your desktop!

Is this bad? Serious question. Are PCs happier if downloads go straight into a folder?

 

[Aderes Devorah]

do they show up if you rightclick>refresh?

Yes. It seems that somehow my desktops have become a bit muddled up. I assumed that I only had one, but apparently not.

Cheers