Tech Tip for Writers #14: Desktop Icons Disappear?
Tech Tips for Soon-to-be Great Writers
Tech Tips for Writers is an (almost) weekly post on overcoming Tech Dread. I'll cover issues that friends, both real-time and virtual, have shared. Feel free to post a comment about a question you have. I'll cover it in a future Tip.
Q: My desktop icons disappeared for no known reason. What do I do?
A: This is a question I get from parents more often than you'd think. One moment, they're all there, lined up like little soldiers. The next, they're gone.
Here's what works about 80% of the time:
right clock on the desktop
Select View
Make sure that the Show Desktop Icons is checked
If not, check it
Desktop icons reappear.
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Jacqui Murray is the editor of a technology curriculum for K-fifth grade and creator of two technology training books for middle school. She is the author of Building a Midshipman , the story of her daughter's journey from high school to United States Naval Academy midshipman. She is webmaster for five blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for Examiner.com , and a weekly contributor to Write Anything and Technology in Education . Currently, she's working on a techno-thriller that should be ready this summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.
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