pursang

I've completely messed up my desktop and lost a whole bunch of links.
No one mentioned to me that after I came back out of windows safe mode that all of my desktop icons would rearrange themselves, but that's not the big problem, I have so many links on the desktop that when they rearranged themselves a large pile of them (about 30) piled up in the upper left hand corner, while trying to disable the icon grid I right clicked on the desktop and I think I pressed auto arrange and that whole pile of links disappeared !
Can someone please help me find all those links again ?

ceewi1

They're probably outside the viewable area of the screen. You can turn your screen resolution up to see them (right click on desktop -> properties -> settings and turn up resolution), or you can put a pile of them in a folder, and hit auto arrange again. This should let you see the rest of them and you can turn auto-arrange off and move them back to where you want them.

There are plenty of other ways, those are just a couple of ideas. Once done, you should organize your links a little

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J_D

Ctrl A would select all desktop short-cuts, dont know if this would help in your case

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pursang

Nope the resolution trick didn't work, just shows more empty screen.
Your idea of putting a pile of them in a folder, are you saying that will make room on the desktop for the missing links to reappear ? because they don't seem to be anywhere on the desktop at all.