{"id":373,"date":"2012-04-02T12:02:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T11:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robin.jansman.info\/wordpress\/?p=373"},"modified":"2012-04-17T15:39:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:39:24","slug":"windows-7-disappearing-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mb200d.nl\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/windows-7-disappearing-icons\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Disappearing Icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Desktop Icons disappear randomly, and NO, it is not the checkbox &#8216;Show desktop icons&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The problem and (possible) solution is explained at the Microsoft TechNet forums.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/w7itprogeneral\/thread\/ada5d392-2af7-43c3-9191-08baf63f0098\">http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/w7itprogeneral\/thread\/ada5d392-2af7-43c3-9191-08baf63f0098<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems that a service cleaning up broken desktop shortcuts. Maybe the service can not determine very well if the link is broken or not. All involved shortcuts are linked to folder on a network drive.<\/p>\n<p>We will wait for a couple of day to see if this really was the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Server: Small Business 2003 Dutch<br \/>\nClient: Windows 7 64b Dutch<br \/>\nRoaming profiles enabled, with only My Documents redirected.<\/p>\n<h1>Update 1: My Customized Solution:<\/h1>\n<p>Take a look at this site for manual command:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rays-it.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/one-way-to-get-around-desktop-shortcuts.html\">http:\/\/rays-it.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/one-way-to-get-around-desktop-shortcuts.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then you will see that making an Windows 7 startup script is not very hard to do. This may be helpfull if you have to update multiple computers in a Windows Domain environment.<\/p>\n<p>Go to your NETLOGON share and make a new script file:<\/p>\n<p><strong>TS_Brokenshortcuts_Script.bat<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre># NETLOGON Script: TS_BrokenShortcuts_Customized\r\n# Take Ownership of the file\r\ntakeown \/f \"C:\\Windows\\diagnostics\\scheduled\\Maintenance\\TS_BrokenShortcust.ps1\" \/A\r\n# Assign Administrator full access rights\r\nicacls \"C:\\Windows\\diagnostics\\scheduled\\Maintenance\\TS_BrokenShortcuts.ps1\" \/grant \"Administrators:F\"\r\n# Now you can replace the file\r\nxcopy \"\\\\server\\netlogon\\TS_BrokenShortcuts_NEW.ps1\" \"C:\\Windows\\diagnostics\\scheduled\\Maintenance\\TS_BrokenShortcuts.ps1\" \/y<\/pre>\n<p>Place also the new ps1 file in you netlogon share. And do not forget to call the new scripts. One possibility to do is by using Group Policy&#8217;s: Computer Startup Scripts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desktop Icons disappear randomly, and NO, it is not the checkbox &#8216;Show desktop icons&#8217;&#8230; The problem and (possible) solution is explained at the Microsoft TechNet forums. http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/w7itprogeneral\/thread\/ada5d392-2af7-43c3-9191-08baf63f0098 It seems that a service cleaning up broken desktop shortcuts. Maybe the service can not determine very well if the link is broken or not. All involved shortcuts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,1],"tags":[80,81,78,79,82,77],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-it-related","category-robin","tag-disappearing-desktop-icons","tag-disappearing-desktop-shortcuts","tag-sbs2003","tag-small-business-server-2003","tag-ts_brokenshortcuts-ps1","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mb200d.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mb200d.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mb200d.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mb200d.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mb200d.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.mb200d.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"http:\/\/www.mb200d.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mb200d.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mb200d.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mb200d.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}