Vista - Deleted 'Desktop' folder on Favorites tab on IE

Hi all,

Just wondering if any of you would help me rectify this stupid thing that I did yesterday

I use Vista Home Basic and out of nowhere I realised there was a 'Desktop' folder in the Favorites tab on IE. Since I have no need to have all my desktop shortcuts messing up the arrangement of my fave webpages so I went ahead and deleted it. Warning bells should have gone off in me head when File Operations was asking for permission but I persisted.

And now all the files that I have kept on my desktop are gone i.e. pics, pdf, resumes!! I have checked the Recycle Bin but they are not there either. I tried using a software that downloaded online -> WinUndelete but it made me more confused.

I have also tried the tutorials with the Registry thing but doesnt seem to work.

Can somebody kindly help me with this problem please??
Thanks.

Hello Ginyi, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You may have accidentally dragged and dropped the Desktop folder into the Favorites folder. Double check using OPTION THREE in the tutorial below that both folders are set with their default locations.

Personal User Folder - Restore Missing Folder

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Try Brinks suggestion, If u really deleted the desktop folder,

Try this free tool

Delphin.zip

Keep us informed

Thanks guys for the reply.

I managed to restore the desktop folder on My Documents but its empty!
And I cant seem to recover the files that I had saved on my desktop as well.

When I did a file search they appear but when I click on them I have a popup saying that the item that he shortcut refers to has been changed or moved so it will no longer work properly.

Is this normal? Does this mean I can recover these files?

Ginyi,

For shortcuts, you would just need to create new ones directly from the EXE file of the program again.

To try and recover any files, you might see if Recuva or Shadow Explorer may be able to recover them for you from the C:\Users\(user-name)\Desktop folder.

Thanks so much for your help Shawn!

I will try and see if it works