Subj : Missing My Computer Icon
To   : All
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 09:54 am

(Greg emailed Alan Zisman):

Greg Easthom here.

Yours is the only e-mail I have in my Fido "To" list, the Bandmaster BBS 
is having some problems tossing uploaded messages (it won't even accept
any from Basic'ly) so before Jay starts reformatting everything, could you
post this for me?  :-)

This is for the Win95 echo, thread: Missing My Computer icon


JE> I have a laptop with W95 coming in that has the My Computer
JE> icon missing from the desktop. It is not in the Recycle Bin
JE> either. The owner has no idea where, why or how it disappeared
JE> to.

JE> Any idea how to restore the My Computer icon.

A few ideas from that thar InterWeb...

Can you still access My Computer via Windows Explorer?
It should be one step down from Desktop on the left side.
You can "create a shortcut" on the Desktop if you like.

Has My Computer been moved to somewhere in the Start menu?

Was there a "Desktop theme" that was installed and removed?

There are (non-recommended) Registry hacks that make it invisible.

Try deleting ShellIconCache (in C:\Windows) and rebooting.


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