[BillHarrison]

Norton kept telling me I had a mailicious script at start-up located in a file I believe was "windows system.hta" which I found in the startup menu. I deleted it. Now I have no icons on my desktop, although the programs are all available in my program file. I've tried dragging a propgram to create an icon but it doesn't work. It might be that the icons are just "turned of" somewhere, but I can't remember where to look. Help!

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That was probably a critical startup file which loads your desktop icons. Try using system restore and see if that fixes your problem.

[Dark_Side]

That was probably a critical startup file which loads your desktop icons. Try using system restore and see if that fixes your problem.

[Cranky]

Try this.
Right click on Desktop, go to( Arrange icons by), then see if (Show desktop
icons) is checked.

[fflowergirl]

This is really great.

I lost all my desktop icons by clicking on something
while downloading the Clean up software.

I remembered reading this very question here today.

How fortunate to find the remedy to this problem!

I right clicked on my desktop picture and then clicked on arrange
icons and show on desktop and they are all back on the screen.

YAY and THANKS!