Desktop shortcut icon arrow disappeared

CountMike said:

You actually want those thingies ???

Bingo.

Dear Gamer Friend,

Since you have 101 game shortcuts this could take a while, but it will be worth it: put all your games in your start menu. That way you won't be worrying about how the icons show and you'll have a much cleaner desktop.

I keep my always apps in my taskbar but my sometimes apps in the Start. Like so --



I have 29 items visible in the Start Menu. With some creativity you could fit your 51 gaming shortcuts. Maybe put some in folders that are similar.

Now if you say, but wait, that adds clicks to get to games -- your Taskbar has GOBS of room for your current favorites. You can even make more room by shrinking the Cortana search field as I do. (You do know that if you just hit Windows Key you can start typing, meaning you don't need that search field at all?)

Don't mind me, just some thoughts.

Tyrd Oldman said:

I realize that this is an old thread but as noted by others it is most relevant to the problem I've run into as well.
I was attempting to create 'comment' displays when I hover over any of my desktop shortcuts. Normally there is information about file location etc. I discovered that there was a way to display the [comment] field in the shortcut Properties/Shortcut Tab when hovering. My problem was that the function quit at seemingly random times.

As a retired programmer and Instructional Systems Developer for programmers I couldn't let this continue without some attempt to discover the cause. It's become painfully obvious that Google does not have all the answers to all the problems. I have found some consistent methods to repeat the problem that I'll list below so that one of the Windows Mensa's that may bother reading this can use for a clue.

1. After booting in, everything works fine, there are arrows on the icons, and hovering over them brings up the comments that I've entered.
2. If I open a browser window (Firefox in my case) the arrows are still there, but the comment feature disappears.
3. If I focus/click on the desktop and to an Explorer Restart or an F5 Refresh the feature returns.
4. If I focus back on the browser it again disappears so changing focus from one to the other is an indicator.
5. Until reading this thread I hadn't noticed if other images were coming up in place of the arrow, but in my case the arrow did disappear on occasion. I'll be looking for a connection on that aspect.

If any readers of this post have other repeatable processes, you might post them to add to the collection. I may be the only person in the world subscribed to this thread, but I hope someone else can help.

Found this thread again today. You are exactly correct and I never knew opening the browser changes the hover display on desktop icons. And indeed, F5 restores them.

Have you found anything further? Did you try Max Cached Icons?