desktop icons not apearing

[Crono]

Ya on my desktop you can see like the shortcut to the program but not the little picture

EX. my computer has a little computer, my documents has folder

i am running windows xp home edition sp2

[CBMatt]

Could you perhaps provide a screenshot to give us a better idea?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Is this for all icons or shortcuts (please specify).
What Operating System is this?

If it's for shortcuts, make sure the path exists. If it does exist but the icon is wrong, delete that shortcut and recreate it by right clicking on the original file and click 'send to desktop'. This will create a shortcut to the file.

If it isn't too much trouble, post a picture for us to have a look at.

[Crono]

[img=http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4710/untitledbmpol2.th.jpg]

Here the picture

And windows xp

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Small picture but I can tell all your shortcut icons are missing...

[CBMatt]

Yes, small picture, but I see what you mean now.

Althought the icons have changed, do the shortcuts still work?
How long has this been happening?
What changes have you made recently?  Did you install anything before this happened?
Have you tried using System Restore?
What protection do you have?

[Crono]

yes the shortcuts do exist

i think i found the solution when i make a new short cut the picture reappears

[patio]

What picture ? ? ?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I think he did what I told him to do. He recreated the shortcut and the icon reappeared.

Congrats 

[Crono]

I think i kinda ignored this after i found my solution well this is how i did it

Alright i did this

Right-click-->Properties--->Change Icon -->Selected Picture Provided-->Repeat

It took like 5mins to do all of em

Hope this helped for people with this problem

Well i was searching for my answer i found this cool trick

Invisible Folder  tut
Heres how its done

Right-Click-->New Folder-->Hold alt press 0160 on num

pad--->Right-Click-->Properties-->customize tab--->Change Icon--> Pick a empty slot

Complete

Well thax for your help

[GX1_Man]

I wonder what happened prior to all of this.