I was looking around in File Explorer on my new laptop with Win10 (has all updates).
I downloaded and installed Firefox and Google Chrome so I have more web browser options. I also loaded Adobe Acrobat Reader. The installations put shortcuts for all 3 programs on the desktop, which I could see on the Desktop, and all the shortcuts worked.
In File Explorer when I looked in the Desktop folder under my "User" folder, I did not see the shortcuts listed. I could see other shortcuts that were on the laptop when I first got it from Dell.
I copied the shortcuts off the Desktop from the 3 programs I installed, pasted them into a different location, then deleted the shortcuts from the Desktop. Then cut and pasted those 3 shortcuts back to the desktop.
After I did that, I could now see the shortcuts in the Desktop folder in File Explorer.
I thought it was strange that I had to copy and paste those shortcuts back to the desktop for File Explorer to see them. Any theories why this happened?
Maybe when they were put on the Desktop as part of the program installation File Explorer for some reason wasn't able to see them - ??
I downloaded and installed Firefox and Google Chrome so I have more web browser options. I also loaded Adobe Acrobat Reader. The installations put shortcuts for all 3 programs on the desktop, which I could see on the Desktop, and all the shortcuts worked.
In File Explorer when I looked in the Desktop folder under my "User" folder, I did not see the shortcuts listed. I could see other shortcuts that were on the laptop when I first got it from Dell.
I copied the shortcuts off the Desktop from the 3 programs I installed, pasted them into a different location, then deleted the shortcuts from the Desktop. Then cut and pasted those 3 shortcuts back to the desktop.
After I did that, I could now see the shortcuts in the Desktop folder in File Explorer.
I thought it was strange that I had to copy and paste those shortcuts back to the desktop for File Explorer to see them. Any theories why this happened?
Maybe when they were put on the Desktop as part of the program installation File Explorer for some reason wasn't able to see them - ??