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Windows 10 & Missing Desktop Icons
- Windows 10 Pro, 64 bit
I was repairing, uninstalling, and installing an app yesterday. In the process, I somehow managed to delete many, but not all, of my desktop icons. My guess is that I lost about 60 to 75 percent of my prior desktop icons.
My desktop icons are just shortcuts to various programs. Although I don't have a complete inventory of my prior desktop icons, I noticed that various Adobe apps (cloud, and various apps such as Lightroom, Acrobat, and others), Acronis Backup, Powershell, Intel SSD Toolbox, CCleaner and so on went missing.
I checked my Recycle Bin and there was nothing there.
This morning, I thought that I would simply reach into my Acronis Backup to the Desktop folder, and retrieve my missing shortcuts. When I went to the Desktop folder, the only shortcuts that were present were the ones that survived yesterday's purge. My prior shortcuts that went missing were still missing.
While I was trying to understand what took place, I upgraded my Acronis Backup from 12.0 to 12.5. In the process, Acronis Backup created a desktop icon. I looked at my current Desktop folder, and there is *no* Acronis Backup shortcut file listed. So that leads me to my questions:
Question One: Why do some shortcuts have files in the Desktop folder, while other shortcuts do not?
Question Two: Is there any way to save or protect one's desktop?
Here's the path to my desktop folder:
C:\Users\UserName\Desktop
On the positive side, my desktop is cleaner now.
I'd appreciate input on my two prior questions.