Help! My desktop toolbar and icons are missing. Can anyone help?

Question

For some reason, my desktop icons and tool bar are missing. I have tried restore and that does not work. Short of re-loading windows again, does anyone have any suggestions. I would rather not re-install windows. I do not want to take the chance of loseing the data that I have on the system. (Much less, my favorite places.)

Please help if you can.

Thanks

Answer 1

you might have activated a desktop option that do not display desktop icons try this out
1. right click at desktop.
2. choose "arrange icons by"
3. click "show desktop icons"

hope this will help you

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I take it when you performed the System Restore you rebooted your system. I have had my desktop icons and toolbar go missing before too, but a simple reboot corrected the issue.

I would first reccomend you try a later Restore Point, as often when one fails to fix the issue, a second or third may do so. Sometimes it is difficult to exactly pinpoint the date the issue began. While the icon/toolbar going missing may cause you to think that a Point right before they came up missing will fix the issue, in truth the cause that resulted in these missing items may have occured some time before they actually came up missing.

Also, it is possible you have a virus or other malware. If you do, then this infection(s) are also in your System Restore Points. As a Restore Point is an image of your entire system at a certain point in time, a malware item is also in that image, as it has become a part of that system. So, in order to work you have to go back to the date prior to when the infection occured. This can be difficult because some malware sits in a system dormat until a "trigger" event occurs which then propells them into motion and destruction.

One of the steps of cleaning a system filled with malware, or even with only one virus, is to delete all Restore Points in order to ensure the system does not become reinfected. In order to do this System Restore must be disabled, and then reenabled. By disabling System Restore, all current Points are deleted from the system. This is good in some ways, but it doesn't leave much room for recovery in future as System Restore must begin to rebuild its Points. This is why disabling System Restore and then reenabling it is the last step in a cleanup job.

I do not mean to lecture when I say this next part. I just wish to impart some information on good practices when using a system. While using a system the User makes changes, downloads items, installs programs, removes programs, adds hardware etc. When ANY change is about to occur, it is Best Practice to set manual Restore Points. Manual Restore Points are exceedingly simple to create, and only takes a few short moments. When we set manual Restore Points we name them descriptive names, such as Updated Sound Card Driver. This way we don't have to guess on a date when attempting to correct an error event, we can go straight to the Point we need.

Consider setting a Manual Restore Point prior to making any changes to your system, from the smallest most insignifacant seeming change, to such large issues as updating hardware and making changes in the Registry. We can never know what can cause a system to go buggy, and even the most inoccous seeming change can cause a Blue screen. Updating drivers is the most common cause of Blue Screens, but most anything can do this as well.

As you have used System Restore before you can easily begin setting manual Restore Points without my having to provide the steps here. Just consider this and then do as you see fit.

Now, with that said, the first step in finding out what went wrong is to consider the most recent changes to your system, and then reverse them. Have you downloaded any items, installed any software, updated any drivers or any other system resource, or set any configuration changes anywhere in the system? Have you installed any new hardware?

By looking at the most recent changes, and then undoing them in Safe Mode on at a time in the order they were put in place, with the most recent first, and then on backwards in time, you stand a chance of locating and fixing the issue without the need to reinstall your OS, or take it back to factory specs, or as it was when you purchased it, and save your data. It is worth the time to do this a step at a time.

System Restore is a grand way to undo many changes at once. It leaves your data in place, but will delete any other items between the Restore date you choose and when you perform the Restore.

If this does not work, then I strongly suggest you take advantage of one of the many forums on the web which helps Users fix their systems. It could be malware, or it could be somthing different. The best way to find out it to utilize a program utility devoted to discovery of errors and malware, called, HijackThis. Go and visit several of these forums, read the posts, locate one you think fits your needs best, where you feel most comfortalbe, and then joing the group. It is free to join, but in order to post messages and have the others answer those posts, and to post the log reports of the utilities you use to get your issue diagnosed, you have to join, or register.

Here is a link to the search results page with links in many different HijackThis forums. If you have a Dell system, Dell has its own HijackThis forum, but you do not have to use it if you do not wish to.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=SUNA,SUNA:2006-50,SUNA:en&q=HijackThis

Here is a MSN group called Freeware and Shareware which also helps users correct all sorts of problems. It has a super chat room facility where the experts can actually use Remote Assistance to aid those with the least experiance by going in and doing the repairs FOR the User. They are a well known with a great reputation and have a high trust level. I wouldn't reccomend them if I thought differently, but check them out for yourself by reading the posts on the message boards:

http://groups.msn.com/FreewareandShareware/welcome.msnw


Good luck and I hope you get your icons and taskbar back asap.

Answer 4

DOWN LOADED WINDOWS10 NO TOOL BAR, CANT FIND PRINTER