How To Get all your desktop icons and shortcuts back

If you are using windows XP and the desktop icons have gone there can be several causes for this. It may just be that you dell inspiron 1470 battery, dell inspiron 1570 battery need to change the settings or you may have corruption, or worse on your PC. You can fix this yourself though without having to reinstall windows or pay a technician to fix this for you.

#1 The first thing you need to check is that you have not disabled the desktop icons. This can happen by accident when changing your settings. To check this right click on the desktop anywhere, then click on arrange icons by and ensure show desktop icons is checked. This is a common cause of this problem.

#2 If this is not the cause of the problem and only some icons have gone they may have been moved. Search for a folder called the unused documents folder on your computer. If it is present it means that the shortcuts have been moved to there and you can drag them back to the desktop.

#3 If you have run the above two steps and you still cannot get your desktop icons back there may be corruption or malware on your computer. You can check for this and fix it quickly.

The information windows requires for desktop shortcuts and desktop icons are stored in the windows registry. If this information corrupts you may see three different errors.

#1 The desktop icons start to blink or flash when you open programs.

#2 The desktop shortcuts fujitsu lifebook e8410 battery, fujitsu lifebook n7010 battery are still there but they are missing the icons associated with them.

#3 All the desktop shortcuts have gone and the steps above will not get them back.

The first step to fix the registry is to check the following.

Start the registry editor by going to the windows start menu in windows XP and then to run. Type in regedit and then press OK. Once it opens find the following entry. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE then SOFTWARE then scroll down to Microsoft then windows, then CurrentVersion and finally to explorer.

Once you have clicked on explorer in the left pane you will see a value in the right pane called max cached icons. Right click on it, click on modify and set it to 2000 then save it restart your computer. If the value in the registry is missing or this does not fix the problem go to the next step.

#4 Download a system and registry scanner. This will scan your computer for registry and file entries that may be causing missing or corrupt icons and will also scan for malicious software that can cause this problem as well. Once you have scanned your computer this will then fix this for you automatically.

Run the first two steps first and if you still cannot get your missing icons back and are not sure how to edit the registry dell inspiron 1420 keyboard, dell inspiron 1525 keyboard scan your computer and fix the error automatically if your windows XP icons are missing.