somewhat of a weird computer problem

Ok, I've never seen this before and it's not crippling but it's really annoying. There's 2 things that happened at the same time.

1. All my desktop icons were deleted. I also cannot add anymore. For example, if I right click and try to add a new folder, nothing happens. Ditto for anything else.

2. My mouse doesn't show the drag. It will still drag windows and such normally, but if you try to "make a box", nothing will show. I went into mouse settings and didn't see anyway to change this.

Anyway, I'm not really sure what happened because it's been a while (a couple weeks). This is on my desktop and I've been using my laptop a lot more lately. Basically I was clicking on something and I clicked somewhere I wasn't supposed to and the computer got stumbled up a bit and ever since then, the situation hasn't changed.

I've rebooted several times since so that's not it.

Any thoughts or ideas? I'd appreciate it a ton.

Also, if it's relevant, I have 3 monitors but the multi-monitorism (word?) is working fine. There aren't any other problems with my computer that I know of...

just take it to a computer store to fix it. they are pretty cheap. cost me $40 to deal with reinstalling windows (cause it was giving me unreal shit).

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Originally Posted by will641

just take it to a computer store to fix it. they are pretty cheap. cost me $40 to deal with reinstalling windows (cause it was giving me unreal shit).

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I'd like to keep this as a last resort...

You might've just hidden them by accident.

Right-click on the desktop and open the "Arrange Icons By" sub-menu.


In the sub-menu, click "Show Desktop Icons" (should have a checkmark beside it if they're showing}.

CTRL ALT F4 may restore your items

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Originally Posted by Warpe

You might've just hidden them by accident.

Right-click on the desktop and open the "Arrange Icons By" sub-menu.


In the sub-menu, click "Show Desktop Icons" (should have a checkmark beside it if they're showing}.

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this is definitely it. i did this on accident a few months ago. its also the cause of the mouse dragging issue.

i've also heard that if active desktop is enabled the icons can disappear if you select to "show web content"

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Originally Posted by bode

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Originally Posted by Warpe

You might've just hidden them by accident.

Right-click on the desktop and open the "Arrange Icons By" sub-menu.


In the sub-menu, click "Show Desktop Icons" (should have a checkmark beside it if they're showing}.

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this is definitely it. i did this on accident a few months ago. its also the cause of the mouse dragging issue.

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lol yes, this was definitely it.

warpe i owe you a beer, and possibly a steak dinner or something.

funny related story:

so when i play poker or just in general when i'm bored on my computer, i tend to swiggle my mouse around and click on lots of stuff. so anyway once in a while when i'd play poker, i'd "magically" find myself across the table where all the PAHUD stats were all screwed up. i was sure that i found a glitch in pokerstars and i tried my hardest to try to recreate it although I never could. it would happen maybe once every few days or so.

eventually i learned that i was just right clicking an open seat and then coincidentally hitting the 'sit here' option but my mouse speed is so absurdly fast that i never caught onto this.

yw Lukie. computers are perfectly designed to make us look stupid.

I noticed I move my mouse pointer around randomly for no apparent reason when I'm playing. If I leave my hand on the mouse, I also take action too fast most of the time so when I tank it's a huge timing tell to anyone paying attention, so now I'm trying to take my hand off the mouse between actions or count steamboats in my head before I click.

kinda related finding I found interesting:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0414145705.htm

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Originally Posted by Warpe

yw Lukie. computers are perfectly designed to make us look stupid.

I noticed I move my mouse pointer around randomly for no apparent reason when I'm playing. If I leave my hand on the mouse, I also take action too fast most of the time so when I tank it's a huge timing tell to anyone paying attention, so now I'm trying to take my hand off the mouse between actions or count steamboats in my head before I click.

kinda related finding I found interesting:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0414145705.htm

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I agree with what you're saying about timing tells. My general rule of thumb is that people make trivially easy decisions quickly, almost as a reaction. While it's fine when you're folding J3o pre, post-flop it just makes you easier to play against and easier to read. Even if I plan to just c/f to a c-bet OOP with 2 undercards, it's better to just wait a couple seconds to make them think you might c/r or whatever, and when you do have a set, it won't look so strange when it takes you 10 seconds to figure out exactly what you want to bump it up to. That's just one example obviously.

insta-acting post flop is almost always bad.

cool article btw, i think that kind of stuff is interesting.

dude, format as a precaution


you know about the horror stories that have been happenin around

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Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer

dude, format as a precaution


you know about the horror stories that have been happenin around

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Lol, there's taking necessary precautions, but formatting because you accidentally hid desktop icons is going a bit too far in my opinion :P

:D