Labels have disappeared from the desktop

Imagine, you as usual turned off your computer last night, and today you turn on and after the download you see that all the shortcuts from the desktop have disappeared ! What happened? Where did everything go? You should not panic, there may be several reasons for this strange behavior of your friend-computer. In this material, we'll try to figure out what happened, and most importantly, how to get back the missing badges.

If all the shortcuts from the desktop completely disappeared, and it is virgin empty, then it is possible that the reason is very simple, and even a child can solve this "problem". But it can be and in another way, it happens that such symptoms can signal big troubles. Let's start to find out what really happened.

The first possible reason

So, if you have missing shortcuts from the desktop, the first thing you should do is check, maybe some joker just deleted them into the trash. If the computer does not have a password and other members of the family or colleague have access to it, then this option is quite appropriate. How to make sure that this is just such an unpleasant misunderstanding? Very simply, create a new folder or file on the desktop. If everything went into normal mode and you are looking at a new object that appeared on your screen, then, really, someone deleted your shortcuts.

But in the case when the object is created, but on the desktop it is not visible, then the reason number two.

The second reason

Several times I have observed such a picture, a person says that he has missing shortcuts from the desktop, and when you come to the computer, it turns out that he accidentally pressed the right button from scratch and chose the item "hide icons" in the drop-down menu.

Check it out for Windows XP is quite simple, right click on the desktop, we hover on the menu item "Arrange", there check the checkbox "Show icons", if it is set, we remove it.

In Windows 7, the sequence of actions is even easier, right click on the table, go to the menu "View" and there we check the same tick. If it is, we shoot and enjoy the icons that have appeared.

But if that did not help, then we should move on to the third point.

The third option

If nothing has helped and you are still watching the same emptiness on the screen, then most likely your computer is attacked by a virus that accidentally (and sometimes) or intentionally (which happens much more often) made it so that you have missing shortcuts From the desktop.

Here it should be specially noted, the third reason is, as a rule, a complex disappearance. Disappear not only the shortcuts, but also the "Start" menu and the lower toolbar.

This happens when, for some reason, the process "Explorer" refuses to start at system startup. But more often it is prevented by a virus.

Since it is he who is responsible for all the shortcuts, the taskbar and the Start menu.

To help the computer, you can try the following actions.

1. We call the dispatcher. In Windows XP, click Crtl + Alt + Delet, in the Seven Crt + Shift + Escape.
2. Click "File", then select "New task> Run".
3. A window will open, in which it is necessary to type "Explorer.exe" (of course, without the quotes) and press "ok".

Once all these steps are done in the correct order, you should see a desktop with all the shortcuts and a "Start" menu with all the panels.

But if you get the error "File not found" (this also happens), then this file is either damaged, or it simply does not exist in the system. How to get it back? There are two ways - simple and fast (ask the friend and rewrite from the USB flash drive to the Windows folder), or install it from the disk that was used during the initial installation of the OS.

Then be sure to check your computer with anti-virus tools, it is possible that such a result is not accidental, but is caused by the activity of virus programs.

If you have such a useful tool as "System Restore" working correctly, then you can try to use it to quickly eliminate all problems.

I hope that thanks to this article, you will understand where the shortcuts from the desktop of your PC disappeared.