By any chance after you logged in, if your windows vista desktop icons missing except some windows default desktop icons, it means your vista profile not loaded properly.
Don’t panic, you can fix it easily. Its related to the earlier post on Temporary Profile in Vista. To recap the steps and make easily, follow the steps to Windows Vista Desktop Icons Missing.
1) You must be a member of local administrators group. Go to registry editor, by typing ‘ regedit’ in run.
3) You will find the same profile list names, one with .bak. The profile list which is having .bak is the your correct profile, but now its loaded with the other profile which is like fresh.
4) To restore your windows vista desktop icons and other profile settings, just rename the profile which doesn’t have .bak to any other, and remove the .bak from second profile. So it will be like below,
5) That’s it. Just log off and log in with your user name and password. It will bring back your windows vista desktop icons and any other profile settings.
hi,
I tried the above fix for missing Vista icons (Windows Vista Desktop Icons Missing) and completely lost the icons. Is there a way to backtrack from renaming the .bak file (ie. to restore to where I was at before I tried this fix) ?
@fred doell,
You can do the same thing again.
Add any extra string for currently working profile list and remove additional text from earlier profile list to make it default.
Log off and login, you must get the same profile before you try this fix.