Lost my icons on the desk top!!!!!
I have a gateway computer with windows 7. I was going to upload some pictures to PhotoBucket and when i hit the Bulk uploader link the computer just froze up. I couldn't close the window so i did a forced shutdown at the start menu. When the computer restarted all my icons were gone. I have the bottom bar with everything on it but nothing else. Everything runs fine but no icons. I ran AVG with no problems detected.
What should i do?
skeeter
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