Quick Fix – Dissapearing Icons – Windows 7
September 5, 2017 Leave a comment
Updated to include information on the ADMX templates.
Customer had reported to me that their Icons had dissapeard for the second week in a row on a Monday morning…
Weird I thought.
Maintenance Microsoft thinks..
It seems if you have more than 4 ‘broken’ shortcuts on your desktop Microsoft will clean them up for you.
Microsoft defines broken as a shortcut to unavailable resource.
I can see the value of that – in theorey, but imagine this – a customer with a laptop who links directly to shared folders on their corporate LAN, all those links are broken come monday morning.
Not the best idea i have seen implemented in Windows 7.
Anyway, great article here for hints and tips on making the best of Windows 7 maintenance.
Control Windows 7 Scheduled Maintenance Behavior Through Group Policy
Update: If you do not have the Scheduled Maintenance policy in your GPMC, you may need to copy sdiagschd.admx and
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