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Hi there,
I hope that someone can help me with this.
I have some icons on my desktop that point to particular webpages and I have
recently been preparing for a re-install of windows. I have taken this
opportunity to have a clear out at the same time.
As part of my clear out I have deleted the folders containing these
particular icon files and I need to to get the pictures back.
Although I had it in mind to copy these icons this is virtually the last
thing that i have to do but when I try to copy them, they return to the
default web site icon which is not what I need.
After copying them the first time these icons on the desktop returned to the
default icon so I system restored and the picture icons came back but no
matter how I try to copy them the copies always revert to the default.
After trying to copy them the desktop icons usually revert to the default
icons as well but on a restart the pictures are back so I know that windows
has saved the picture icons somewhere but I can't find them.
It is very important to me that I have these particular picture icons as
they are how my four year old daughter interacts with the web to get to
certain sites and as she can't read yet she knows which icon is for which
website by the picture.
I know that I can use data recovery techniques/software to try to get these
files back and I am quite capable of doing that should it be necessary but
it seems a bit extreme when I know that windows has got them tucked away
somewhere and if I knew where then I could simply retrieve them.
I don't know if this is the right place to be asking for help with this and
please accept my apologies if it is not but I reasoned that a newsgroup
concerned with customising windows might just be the best place.
I really do hope that someone will be able to help me with this.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Darius
Hi there,
I hope that someone can help me with this.
I have some icons on my desktop that point to particular webpages and I have
recently been preparing for a re-install of windows. I have taken this
opportunity to have a clear out at the same time.
As part of my clear out I have deleted the folders containing these
particular icon files and I need to to get the pictures back.
Although I had it in mind to copy these icons this is virtually the last
thing that i have to do but when I try to copy them, they return to the
default web site icon which is not what I need.
After copying them the first time these icons on the desktop returned to the
default icon so I system restored and the picture icons came back but no
matter how I try to copy them the copies always revert to the default.
After trying to copy them the desktop icons usually revert to the default
icons as well but on a restart the pictures are back so I know that windows
has saved the picture icons somewhere but I can't find them.
It is very important to me that I have these particular picture icons as
they are how my four year old daughter interacts with the web to get to
certain sites and as she can't read yet she knows which icon is for which
website by the picture.
I know that I can use data recovery techniques/software to try to get these
files back and I am quite capable of doing that should it be necessary but
it seems a bit extreme when I know that windows has got them tucked away
somewhere and if I knew where then I could simply retrieve them.
I don't know if this is the right place to be asking for help with this and
please accept my apologies if it is not but I reasoned that a newsgroup
concerned with customising windows might just be the best place.
I really do hope that someone will be able to help me with this.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Darius
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