Icons AWOL from Desktop - Please Help!

Aderes Devorah · 26 Jul 2013 at 22:14

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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panyan · 26 Jul 2013 at 22:29

do they show up if you rightclick>refresh?

spoffle · 26 Jul 2013 at 22:31

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

Aderes Devorah · 28 Jul 2013 at 20:05

spoffle said:
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 · 28 Jul 2013 at 20:06

panyan said:
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

SourChipmunk · 31 Jul 2013 at 16:54

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

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

If it is an installer or something I plan to use right away, I always save to the desktop. Once I've used it for the desired purpose, it gets moved to the proper folder (mainly the Recycle Bin).

Does this result in a clutter of icons on my desktop? Occassionally. But then I am forced to clean them up and realise that there are tasks I did not complete.

Mr Krugga · 31 Jul 2013 at 17:45

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

Desktop is a folder.