Regardless of what you store on your desktop - application shortcuts, files, folders, etc., it is important to have access to those items when you need them. Why All your Desktop Icons Suddenly Disappeared on Windows 11 Devices A video showing how to recover your desktop icons. This post shows how to get all your desktop icons back after they suddenly disappeared on Windows 11 devices. Luckily, if you are part of the group that recently had this happen, it's quite possible nothing on the desktop is lost, but rather that the icons simply are not being displayed. Losing shortcuts is annoying, but losing actual files is far more challenging to recover from. Unexpectedly losing all of the icons on your desktop can be extremely upsetting, especially if you store folders and documents directly on the desktop. Many users experienced this after an update to Windows was automatically installed. If the device you are using is running Windows 11, you may have recently run into an odd issue where all of your desktop icons were suddenly missing.
