This problem goes back a decade from what i see and maybe no solution??
In explorer,, my desktop icons/shortcuts do not appear in the "desktop folder" within the user account or PC. If i click on the very top, "desktop" with "show all folders view if effect, They appear. What gives,, If i want to operate out of just my user account or PC why don't they show?
Chris
If you right click Desktop as shown, and click Properties, Location tab, what path is shown to your desktop folder?
Is that the folder you're actually looking at?
If, for example, you open the Run box (Win key +R) and then type
into that, does file explorer then open and display your desktop items?
I've not experienced nor heard of this as a problem.
This pic is from windows 7,, the desktop link under user account (red circle) and the yellow highlighted desktop both shows desktop folders and shortcut.
In windows 10 the red circled desktop it is blank,, i have to use the desktop link highlighted in yellow
Looks to me like you are clicking:
C:\Users\Desktop
When you should be clicking:
C:\Users\Chris\Desktop
Right click the empty desktop shortcut and choose "properties"
What path is shown?
I am booted to windows 7 this morning doing some work, I can check the path in a few,,
Thank you,
Chris
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here is two picture,,, I am using show all folders.
first is the desktop and it shows all icons, trying to view properties takes me to the Background setting in windows.
this one is "C:\Users\chris\Desktop" and it only shows 2 of the 10 shortcuts.
Windows should not be this hard,,, I know I am not super bright but icons and desktop should not have to be figured out by the end user?
I don't understand this.trying to view properties takes me to the Background setting in windows.
Are you right clicking on Desktop, then scrolling down to/clicking on Properties? Or what?
Just like Properties of a folder or a file...
Third time, I asked:
If, for example, you open the Run box (Win key +R) and then type
into that, does file explorer then open and display your desktop items?
Either you've done something or something seems to have happened to your Windows installation.Windows should not be this hard,,,
At present, insufficient information. This looks strange:
Try this:
Open e.g. Wordpad
Press and hold SHIFT and right click Desktop in the navigation pane (left pane of file explorer).
Scroll down for /look for "Copy as path" in the menu that pops up.
Click that.
Now paste (CTRL V) into Wordpad.
Repeat for any other instance of Desktop in file explorer.
Report the result.
The top-level Desktop (that includesThis PC,Network, etc. plus your folders and files) is a virtual folder consisting of filesystem content from bothshell:Desktopandshell:Common Desktopas well as the virtual items likeControl PanelandLibrariesplaced there via the registry. This folder is the root of the Shell Namepace. The relevant registry keys are:
Code:[HKCU|HKLM]\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace
The Desktop folder found under yourUserProfileand inThis PCis the actual filesytem folder for the user-specific content seen on the Desktop.
Here's the top-level Desktop grouped by FolderPath. Note that virtual items have a FolderPath value ofUnspecified:
Last edited by KeithM; 31 Jul 2022 at 17:55.
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