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I recently lost the ability to display or use any desktop icons.
When I right click the desktop and the Display Properites menu appears, the
"arrange icons by" menu is greyed out. I still have them in the toolbar but
cannot get them back on the desktop. I have XP/SP2 installed. This is
probably my fault as this is the first problem with XP I've had in almost a
year but can anyone think of a reason to loose your desktop icons and more
importantly, how do I get that function back. TIA 
Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)
"Raptor" <raptor3344@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>
> I recently lost the ability to display or use any desktop
> icons. When I right click the desktop and the Display Properites menu
> appears, the "arrange icons by" menu is greyed out. I still have them
> in the toolbar but cannot get them back on the desktop. I have
> XP/SP2 installed. This is probably my fault as this is the first
> problem with XP I've had in almost a year but can anyone think of a
> reason to loose your desktop icons and more importantly, how do I get
> that function back. TIA
>
This may help you,
Check the "NoDesktop" value in the registry and set the value to 0.
[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer]
and (maybe present)
[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer]
If you have XP Pro, use the Group Policy (gpedit.msc)
User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Desktop
Set "Hide and disable all items on the desktop" to Not Configured.
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