[Resolved] No icons on Win desktop

Hi

maybe it seems a silly problem, but i cant help it. When I download files to my desktop, I cant see their icons on it! They are downloaded, which is easy to check by browsing harddrive, but not visible on desktop itself. Can you help me please?

 

sounds like you are putting them in the wrong desktop folder....you may have several depending on your os and the number of users you have configured for your system.

edit:

you may also have desktop icons turned off under your active desktop settings.

 

Thanks for your answer. I do use just regular Win98, in my home, so I am the only user. Now, I remember that it helped when I did reset my comp. Then, by chance, some icons appeard "back" on my desktop. But it was only once. Now, when I do download for example .rar files commanding to put it on desktop, I am for 100% sure I wont see them. So I do open harddrive icon, search for "Desktop" and, of course, they all are there. What is this?

 

try right mouse click on desktop--------> Properties
--------------->Web--------> uncheck "view my active desktop as a web page" ?

 

Are all icons on the desktop hidden or only newly downloaded ones? Is the desktop set to "view as web page"? Right click and check Active Desktop > View as Webpage. Remove the check if there. You will also find an option to "Hide icons when the desktop is viewed as a web page" in the Properties > Effects tab of the desktop.

 

what is the path to your desktop when you search?

try making a notepad document and saving it to your desktop...can you see it?


search for it...is the path the same as the downloaded document?

 

Thanks a lot! After removing check by View as Webpage now it seems to work properly.

Thanks all of you