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From: Twayne on 3 Mar 2010 20:51
In news:egX2NsuuKHA.4464(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl,
Jim Hawkins <jimhawkins(a)manx.net> typed:
> When I turned on my PC (Win XP SP3) this morning all my
> desktop icons had gone.
> I can start programs by going to Start/All programs/..
> finding the one I want and clicking on it,
> but that's a pain.
> How do I get the icons back ? What caused them to
> disappear ?
> Jim Hawkins

I assume you did do a Restart, right? And the problem persisted?
Anything else I can think of has already been covered. After the REstart I'd
look at whether the desktop icons are set to be shown, and then move on to
malware.
The only thing I can think of not covered so far is to rebuild the icon
cache, which I can't recall how to do; perhaps someone might be able to give
the details?

HTH,

Twayne`
--
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered
through personal experience does not become a
part of the moral tissue.

From: Jose on 4 Mar 2010 09:23
On Mar 3, 8:51 pm, "Twayne" <nob...(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
> Innews:egX2NsuuKHA.4464(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl,
> Jim Hawkins <jimhawk...(a)manx.net> typed:
>
> > When I turned on my PC (Win XP SP3) this morning all my
> > desktop icons had gone.
> > I can start programs by going to Start/All programs/..
> > finding the one I want and clicking on it,
> > but that's a pain.
> > How do I get the icons back ?  What caused them to
> > disappear ?
> > Jim Hawkins
>
> I assume you did do a Restart, right? And the problem persisted?
> Anything else I can think of has already been covered. After the REstart I'd
> look at whether the desktop icons are set to be shown, and then move on to
> malware.
>    The only thing I can think of not covered so far is to rebuild the icon
> cache, which I can't recall how to do; perhaps someone might be able to give
> the details?
>
> HTH,
>
> Twayne`
> --
> Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered
> through personal experience does not become a
> part of the moral tissue.

If you are talking about the iconcache.db file, you can read about
ways to rebuild it, refresh it, repair it, etc. but I am of the
thinking that if you think in any way this is your problem, make a new
one with 100% certainty and remove any question about it.

Locate the one for your user, or locate the all with Windows search.
Mine is here:

C:\Documents and Settings\Jose\Local Settings\Application Data

Delete the iconcache.db file, reboot and log back in (or login
automatically) and a new iconcache.db file will be created. Delete
them for all users - delete every one you find if you feel like it and
there will be no questions.

This method removes any doubt that it was recreated, there are no
questions about did the rebuild work, do I need to reboot, etc. Just
do it all and there will be zero questions about it.

From: Jim Hawkins on 5 Mar 2010 04:06
Jim Hawkins wrote:
> When I turned on my PC (Win XP SP3) this morning all my desktop icons
> had gone.
> I can start programs by going to Start/All programs/.. finding the
> one I want and clicking on it,
> but that's a pain.
> How do I get the icons back ? What caused them to disappear ?
>
> Jim Hawkins

My sincere thanks to Don, Twayne and Jose !
It was simply that 'Show desktop icons' flag that had somehow got turned
off.

Jim Hawkins



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