Dec 16, 2024 · Right click your Desktop and select View, is 'Show Desktop Icons' enabled? 2 If that was not the problem, you may be logged into a temporary profile after a Windows update. Restart (not shut down) your PC 4 times, each time let your PC get to the Desktop before the next restart, this will fix this issue a lot of the time.

Sep 4, 2010 · If you still want a desktop shortcut to the Documents folder you can right-click the Documents link in the Start menu and then select "Send to - Desktop (create shortcut)". If that is still not quite what you want, you should be able to create a desktop shortcut to any desired folder by right-clicking on the folder in the left-hand pane of ...

Aug 18, 2022 · My Documents has not existed since XP. If it appears in later editions of Windows it is only a Symlink or shortcut to Documents for backward compatibility with older versions. To put Documents folder shortcut on desktop, open File Explorer, on left hand Explorer bar choose This PC, on right pane find Documents folder, right click to Send to ...

Apr 29, 2018 · For My Documents Go to C:\Users and open the folder which has your user name > See if there is a folder name Documents > Right click on it > Location tab > Restore default You can also right click > Include in Library

Nov 20, 2022 · In Windows 10 and 11 there are two sets of the library folders (Documents, Desktop and Pictures) one set is in your user folder in C:\Users and the other set (the default) is in the OneDrive folder in your user folder in C:\Users. Open File Explorer, then navigate into your user folder in C:\Users A Is there a Documents folder in there? B

Aug 13, 2022 · My "Documents" folder moved to my Desktop with the latest Windows 10 update on 8.11.22 My laptop was automatically updated with a Windows 10 update on 8.11.22. (I know this because my laptop was on when I went to bed and in the middle of the night the login screen was displayed, which is typical after an update.)

The link happened fine however as part of the setup OneDrive has decided to move my Desktop, Documents, Pictures folders from their normal location (C:\Users\user\Desktop) to OneDrive (C:\Users\dunlo\OneDrive - Work\Desktop). I do not want these folders on OneDrive and I particularly do not want them on my OneDrive for Business work account.

Mar 24, 2023 · My computer had an update, and all my desktop files, folders and pictures are gone! What happened to these, I thought my items would be safe on my desktop. This is weird. I tried to recover, no dice. Some of these documents are for business purposes and now are gone. My computer did an update, I think it was Windows. Can you please help. Thank ...

Aug 26, 2022 · I recently got a new laptop and I'm not sure how windows 11 works. I noticed that my documents folder was just my OneDrive, which i don't want. When i tried to redirect it to the main storage, i get: I'm not sure how to get it to work. I don't want to unlink my onedrive completely because i use it often to transfer files.

Dec 25, 2021 · Favorites. Videos. Office documents! etc. ..... Lucky me I was able to locate and recover my files using the "Control Panel>All Control Panel Items>Recovery>Advanced recovery tools". I could have opened my backup files and reinstalled my lost files. But if it was a virus or a hacker accessing my PC, it could be vulnerable for future problems.