I use Stardock Fences to organize my shortcuts.
Got them back thanks.

So now that i have the search problem fixed, after reinstalling windows of course i lost all my chrome desktop shortcuts, al the shortcuts i had that were made with Microsoft edge are there but none...

The only thing that worked for me was to do a repair upgrade from the link Dalchina put in the reply
Thank you.

I haven't installed anything and unfortunately i have no restore point

All of a sudden i can't use the search function in win10 file manager, i can't get my cursor to go in, it almost looks like it is greyed out.
I have google and none of the suggestion work.
win 10...

Thanks
I checked all that and all that is in order, of course that doesn't address the issue i am having with the search options reverting back to just the one account. Not sure if there is a...

I am using windows 10 latest update and Microsoft outlook 2010
The search has always worked fine for all email accounts but i had to redo my computer and reinstall Office.
Now when i check all my...

Yes i am
I have a screenshot in my original post. I am sure that Bill Gates with his smurky smile is working on this as we speak. It probably keeps him up at night.

Yes it that does take and when i hook up the dymo printer the default printer doesn't change it only changes the default after i print a label on the Dymo. If i print a document to a pdf it changes...

That box was never checked so i checked it, rebooted , turned the feature off set my default to samsung and it happily changed my default printer to the dymo printer YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAH Billy

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I use a samsung printer as my default printer. I also have a Dymo labelwriter 450 twin turbo.
When i print a lable on my dymo printer win 10 will set the dymo to my default printer...

Long time ago before Chrome in IE you used to be able to drag the icon in the address bar to the desktop and it would create a shortcut, when chrome came around you could not do that in chrome, i...

I hear you. Another plus for Google LOL

I posted the same question there about a week ago and i haven't seen 1 response yet so , so much for the google forum. Pretty useless as far as i am concerned.

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I appreciate your feedback but asking Google something is like pulling teeth, i haven't found a good place yet where i can ask Google anything, they are not exactly champs in the customer service...

"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome_proxy.exe" --profile-directory=Default --app-id=ipaeeilaeibgpiddhlkpcepjhpmaejma
I looked at the string in that shortcut...

Yes that is what i get as well if you look at my pictures but that doesn't really have the shortcut to the website in it. If you were to use that same shortcut after you do a fresh install of say win...

No. They were created using the create shortcut from the Chrome menu

Here is what i did.
I have many many desktop shortcuts to various websites on my desktop.
Before i did a fressh install of win 10 I copied the C:\Users\Wil\Desktop and the C:\Users\Public\Desktop...

I am using win 10 version 1809 build 17763 and Google Chrome is up to date
Version 79.0.3945.130 (Official Build) (32-bit)
I would like to know where the desktop shortcuts are stored on my...

No they weren't

No that is not what i said. After i copied the saved desktop folder back under c:/users/myname/ the icons to internet locations are on my desktop but when i click on one it just goes to my Google...

That doesn't answer my question though

b. I was running Win 7, but have clean installed Win 10 (i.e. no programs or data that were there in Win 7 now present on 'C: '

I know i can recreate the shortcuts but why would they not be in the...

I just did a fresh install of Win 10 from Win 7
I saved the desktop shortcuts from C:\Users\myname\Desktop to a stick, i was using Chrome as the default engine.
After i installed Win 10 and copied...