Shortcuts to programs, data files, and folders on the desktop add an easy and convenient way to launch the applications you need and load frequently used documents into the operating system interface. Alas, the screen space is limited, and from time to time you have to get rid of some of the accumulated icons. Sometimes, at the same time, shortcuts are also sent to the trash, which after a while have to be restored.
It is necessary
OS Windows 7 or Vista
Instructions
Step 1
Deleted in the usual way (by pressing the Delete key or by selecting the "Delete" item), shortcuts are transferred to the intermediate storage of deleted files - to the "trash". It is not difficult to return them from there, start this procedure by double-clicking the left mouse button on the "Trash" shortcut on the desktop. This action will open the Explorer window with a list of the contents of the shopping cart. Find the necessary shortcuts and return to their original place using the "Restore" item in the context menu invoked by clicking on the object with the right mouse button.
Step 2
If the required shortcuts have been permanently deleted, for example, by pressing the Delete key in combination with the Shift key, you will not be able to return them from the recycle bin. In this way, objects are deleted, bypassing the recycle bin, so you have two options for restoring them - "roll back" the system to the time when the shortcuts were still in the right place, or create them anew. If you decide to use the first option, open the main menu, type "re" and press the Enter key. So you start the system application, with which you need to select one of the restore points saved by the system (they are sorted by date), and the program will do the rest itself.
Step 3
When choosing the second option - re-creating shortcuts - find the necessary programs or files with data in the main menu or using the "Explorer" and drag them to the desktop with the mouse. In this case, a small menu will appear, in which select the "Create shortcut" item.
Step 4
Shortcuts to operating system components - "Recycle Bin", "Computer", "Control Panel", etc. - are deleted in a different way, so the method of their recovery must be different. These icons are not sent to the trash, the OS simply turns off their display on the desktop, changing the appropriate settings. To get these shortcuts back, you need to manually change the settings. To do this, open the main menu, for example, by pressing the Win key, enter the letters "oto" and press the Enter key. A window with the title "Desktop Icon Options" and a set of checkboxes will appear on the screen, each of which is responsible for displaying one of the shortcuts. Check the boxes next to the OS components whose labels you want to return. Then click the OK button.
