icons not showing on desktop

[scobie56]

so windows was downloading updates in the background and explorer.exe crashed and restarted. now my icons will not show up and I when I more icons to my desktop it tells me that the shortcut is already there. I can create folders but they wont showup in either explorer or my desktop but running the DIR command in CMD it lists the new folders.

Ran malware bytes and start up repair, both had no issues.

Any ideas

[Fleetscut]

right click on the desktop and click refresh. also have you tried a reboot?

[scobie56]

1 minute ago, Fleetscut said:

right click on the desktop and click refresh. also have you tried a reboot?

yeah ive tried the lot im out of ideas 

[Fleetscut]

open explorer and then go into your user directory, and then into the desktop folder. everything inside that is the exact same as what shows on the desktop

 

edit

 

missed the part where you mentioned you checked explorer. im out of ideas

[Tabs]

18 minutes ago, scobie56 said:

so windows was downloading updates in the background and explorer.exe crashed and restarted. now my icons will not show up and I when I more icons to my desktop it tells me that the shortcut is already there. I can create folders but they wont showup in either explorer or my desktop but running the DIR command in CMD it lists the new folders.

Ran malware bytes and start up repair, both had no issues.

Any ideas

If you haven't checked this yet, right click on your desktop > view > show desktop icons.

Edited July 27, 2018 by Tabs
Half my post was overwritten by the quote

[scobie56]

2 minutes ago, Tabs said:

If you haven't checked this yet, right click on your desktop > view > show desktop icons.

no idea why i didn't check that haha thanks alot man that fixed it.