Missing Desktop Icons

Question

On the desktop some of the icons are blank but they're meant to have pictures. it isn't too much of a big deal but its pretty annoying. what do i do to get them back?

Answer 1

have you tried defragging you computer your computer

its in accessory, system tools, disk defragmenter it should fix it

Answer 2

Usually if desktop icons are blank it means either the program was deleted without removing icon or the short cut it represents is faulty

right click icon go to properties new popup box will appear you will then have the choice to change icon or you can go to the program and reset the icon

Answer 3

Defragging doesn't fix this kind of problem. What happends if you try to recreate one of the icons? IF it works, it could have just been some kind of bug. If it doesn't work, reboot the computer into safe mode. Goto http://www.pchell.com/support/safemode.s... if you don't know how. Then restart into normal windows, that should rebuild the iconcache.db file that stores the icons. If that doesn't work, try creating a new user account and see if the problem occurs on the new user account. If it doesn't, you can always transfer things to the new user account. You can also try a system restore back to the date before when this happend. Beward though that any program installations you installed after this date will not work, so be careful when using system restore.

Hope this helps!