Half my icons mysteriously vanished.

[powertower]

Let me first start off by saying this is not a very big issue I'm just curious as to why it happened. I leave my laptop on all the time and tonight I come home to find half my desktop items gone. I'm running windows 7 pro 64 bit, anyone ever have any issues like this? It's weird that only 4 or 5 of them vanished from different spots on my desktop, I'm just curious as to how this could have happened since no one else uses this computer.

[Steve R Jones]

Does rebooting make any difference?

Are you missing any icons from the Start->All programs list? If so - start scanning for viruses.

[Taxmancometh]

If you did a system restore this will happen.

[JPMiller]

did you check your recycle bin?
or are they just gone altogether?

[powertower]

Didn't do a sys restore, rebooting didn't help, no virus. I checked the recycle bin, nothing in there. Very weird issue, it's as if someone used it while I was gone and decided to delete a select few icons :S. Anyways no big deal, thanks for the replys though - I remembered which ones were missing and replaced them - just very weird.

[powertower]

Ok I'm reviving this thread - Just happened again, It's funny because it's only system related icons that vanish never any shortcuts to apps / folders. I'm 100% sure malware / viruses aren't the cause. Any other ideas?

[bigBonehead]

.....I'm 100% sure malware / viruses aren't the cause.....

For some reason, every time I read the above in any post, i smile.