How to Recover Removed Files and Icons from Windows 10 Desktop

Sometimes files and icons are lost from the Desktop, and the causes behind that can be an emergency restart of the device, corruption of file as well as system failure, etc. The worst part is that it not only makes vanish the files but the folders too. Some of your essential files can be part of it and if you wish to recover them, then we will help you out. Read through the blog to recover the removed icons from the Windows 10 desktop.


Use the ‘Personalize’ tab
  1. Firstly, you need to choose Personalize. It will be placed in the context menu. You need to turn it on by doing a left-click on it.
  2. Then, visit Themes in the launched window.
  3. After that, select ‘Desktop icons settings.’
  4. Next, on the launched window, specify the items that you wish getting back.
  5. After that, press on Apply.
  6. Then, tap on ‘OK.’
  7. Note that now you shall get back your specified item.
Restoring the Desktop files from the Recycle Bin
  1. Firstly, launch the Recycle Bin by the context menu or else the Windows search bar.
  2. Then, in the launched Recycle Bin folder, specify each of the items which you wish restoring.
  3. Lastly, you need to do a right-click in the launched window tap ‘Restore.’
System Restore
  1. Firstly, go to the Start menu.
  2. Then, visit the Control Panel.
  3. After that, visit Recovery.
  4. Next, in the launched window, you need to press on ‘Open system restore.’
  5. Then, tap on the Next option.
  6. Lastly, you need to confirm the rollback to the restore location.
Recovering lost files on Desktop by disabling tablet mode
Note that in tablet mode, items are not shown on the Desktop location. For the users who wish to have access to the non-displayed icons one more time, you need to turn off this given feature. For doing it, you need to follow the below-mentioned points.
  1. Firstly, go to Start.
  2. Then, press on Settings.
  3. After that, press on System.
  4. Next, tap on Tablet mode.
  5. After that, turn off ‘Hide app icons on the taskbar in the tablet mode’ option.
  6. Lastly, you need to reboot your device.
Restoring Desktop items by using Recuva
For knowing the method of restoring Desktop files by using Recuva, do according to as follows:
  1. Firstly, you need to download and launch Recuva.
  2. Then, choose the kinds of items to restore. To the launched window, we recommend selecting ‘All files’ option.
  3. After that, you need to mention the location from where you wish to restore missing items: c:\User\<<User name>>\Desktop (the name of the user is mentioned in Latin letters).
  4. Wait for the scanning to wrap up.
  5. Note that this recovery program shall present before you the list of files. You need to specify the files which you wish to get displayed on the Desktop.
  6. Lastly, press the ‘Restore’ option.
    John Smith is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at mcafee.com/activate, and a professional cyber security analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world

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