On one of my computers on my home network, all the shortcuts disappeared. (Win XP Pro – all up to date)
This happened a week ago, I have been researching it since, no luck so far except to suggest a desktop/user login problem.
As I am only user, no, but desktop and admin menus suggest nothing.
[b]Symptoms:
All desktop shortcuts went.
All Quick Launch went (except show desktop)
All Systray went (except time)[/b]
most oddly of all, but may hold the key….
[b][u]All Start/Programs links went too, all empty[/u][/b]
I can rebuild them manually, reinstall what is needed, but it sure is a puzzle.
Have I lost a shortcut cache maybe?
Only new thing installed was PC-cillin suite (which I have since uninstalled – it was a worse resource hog than Norton)
Any Ideas my friends?
To repeat, it is not a problem, I can reinstall manually, I am merely curious, this is a techie thing that is probably simple, but outside of my experience.