[RESOLVED] Anyone ever lost their desktop?

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If you have, then please tell me how you were able to find it and with all your shortcut links still showing. Idle time helped me to do a stupid thing. I was fiddling with 'things' and accidentally deleted the desktop. Can I hope and expect to restore it? I have tried Recuva but without any luck. Perhaps I am not using the correct path to my desktop. As always, TIA.
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO THOSE MOTHERS.

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Do you mean you just lost all the icons? Try right clicking the desktop and choose view>show desktop icons.

Did you lose the desktop background as well? Or anything else? What is it exactly that's there?

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To be truthful fink, I don't know what I was doing; nor in what program(?) I was using or really what I was even doing. Yeah, stupid is what stupid is and I sometimes think I have the market cornered on that subject. Some of the icons are still on my desktop but I lost all of my shortcuts to items that I had placed there until I had to time to read them. The one folder I miss most are my shortcut links to various sites, like our forum. I suppose I had 20+ shortcuts in Program Shortcut folder that I opened there that I used daily. I have begun from memory replacing a couple of them. Thanks for your offer to help.

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You could try a system restore from a day or more ago.. but to be honest I'm not sure it backs up those things. I'd try it anyway.

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Good try. I did that the night of the 10th when it happened. Had no luck then and I just tried it back to the 9th but still no luck. Thanks fink. Other ideas??

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Is it possible that they just got moved to another place on the drive?

Do a file search for one or two of the shortcuts which names you remember and see if anything turns up.

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Don't see them fink [B]but[B] my mind is beginning to shake the cobwebs and I am beginning to recall some of them and have searched with Bing/Google to find a couple ' here and there'. When I find one, I choose a shortcut to my desktop and then move that shortcut into the Program Shortcuts folder I made. I'm still all ears if you think of other things to try. And BTW, I use the Classic Shell instead of Windows 7.
EDIT: forgot to say that I am recovering some of those shortcuts by using the Favorites feature of Windows.

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You could try a deep scan using Recuva. That will most definately find more deleted files although even if you do find the ones you lost they may well not be recoverable. Still worth the hour or so it would take.

Then, unless you have an imaging backup program like TrueImage etc I have no other ideas.

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For your further help, I do thank you fink. I did the deep scan with Recuva yesterday but had no success. I hate going back to two months ago to fix this. I can always do that if I continue to have trouble with redeeming some of that which I lost when I deleted the contents of my desktop. I set up my machine to do just that yesterday but then changed my mind. I do have that luxury of using ATI 2010 Home to restore to 2 months ago. Have a nice weekend my friend.

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You can just recover the folder or shortcut(s) that was lost from the desktop using TrueImage. You don't need to recover the whole partition.

Go to the drive that contains the image, and you can open it in windows explorer and drill down to the desktop and copy the folders or shortcuts that are there and paste them onto your current desktop.

Or you can mount the image drive by using TrueImages Tools & Utilities and select "mount image".. choose the .tib image you want to mount and then follow the wizard instructions. It will then appear as a new drive in windows explorer from which you can copy, drag files to the desktop.

When you're done just unmount the image.

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Went to a late dinner, came back and looked in my mail and saw your reply. Just 5-10 minutes before reading your post, I was looking at and considering the use of Mount/Unmount in my March backup. Lo and behold there was your reply dealing with the very same thing. Am happy to report that all is not in order and more than you know--I thank you even more. Another day I'll remove those dup shortcuts that I created from memory. Case solved. And shortly I am bed bound.