Why me??

[dicklaxt]

I always have the weird **** happen,,,,,for some unknown reason the right vertical row of Icons(5 of them) on my desktop have just disappeared.Where did they go and how do I get them back?

TIA dick

[baytownboy]

What I do when some weird stuff, and it happens, is to shutdown and restart. I shut it down for at least 5 minutes then restart, hopes this help.

[bill]

says Vista but works for win7 as well

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/

[dicklaxt]

That didn't work,,,,,,,,, I next clicked on View>Large Icons boy they are big but now I can't get rid of them

I tried adding anew link and changing its name to one of the missing icons and I get a message that says its already there,,,,,,,,,,,,so I guess the problem is they are not gone just hidden,What now coach?

[dicklaxt]

The problem now is that the grid on the desktop is to large.I probably had it shut off so I could get the number Of shortcut Icons displayed and I just had them tucked in tight,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,if there is a way to make the grid smaller then I'm back in business.I was able to recover all missing Icons by dragging and dropping an existing Icon into a shortcut folder,this made room for the missing icon to display itself,if that makes any sense

[Captain Dave]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...een-resolution

right click desktop -> view > auto arrange

[dicklaxt]

Thanks thats good to know,,,,,,,,,,the problem was someone had selected icon grid placement and then tried to fix and things got all out of kilter.I found if I did a drag and drop of an icon to a new folder one of the missing icons would appear in its place. I did this with all then manually repopulated the desktop with the grid shut off and placed them on a much smaller visual grid.I must have done that before and had forgotten it.


dick