

You would be better served by creating a folder, say on your C: drive and placing those files and folders there, then creating desktop shortcuts to them on your desktop in instead of having the actual files and folders there. Looking at your screen shot, unless you have the little arrow overlay turned off that indicates a shortcut, it looks like you have actual files and folders on your desktop. IMHO you would be better served by a separate backup program if thats what you want (unattended backups). This McAfee program must be one of those "all in one" suits that does everything but none very well. Isn't that nice of McAfee to let you know. You can use it to recover deleted files, formatted or inaccessible data in various data loss cases. EaseUS data recovery software is famous for data recovery under difficult circumstance. But you don't have to worry if you have an effective file recovery tool. And files loss also happens when there is a hard drive formatting/damage, OS crash, virus attack, or storage media corruption. Close the Settings window and check if your desktop icons are visible or not.įiles often get lost easily when your desktop icon disappears. On the left pane, click on "Tablet mode" and turn it off.Open the "Settings "again and click on "System" to open the system settings.If you have enabled the Tablet mode, the Windows 10 desktop icon will be missing. Windows 10 has two built-in types of Modes: Desktop and Tablet.


Open the "Settings "again and click on "System" to open the system settings. On the desktop, right-click your mouse and select "view" and check for the "Show desktop icons". Click the "Start" menu and search for "Settings".
