OneDrive disappearing desktop icon

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[Klaus]

I have an ongoing issue with the OneDrive desktop icon repeatedly disappearing. I’m not talking about OneDrive in the system tray, or some manually created shortcut, but what appears to be a system shortcut similar to the “User’s Files”  icon.

I found an article on how to restore the icon with a registry merge which is simple enough (attached as a text file), but I’m curious why it keeps disappearing, and how to prevent it from happening. And of course there are several articles on how to reset OneDrive, but I don’t have a problem with OneDrive per se, and resetting it doesn’t solve the problem.

Obviously it’s not difficult to get to OneDrive even without the icon, but I don’t like things happening on their own. Any ideas on what might be going on?

• This topic was modified 4 years ago by Klaus.

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This link might or might not be useful to you:

Add / Remove OneDrive Icon from Windows 10 Desktop

https://www.top-password.com/blog/add-remove-onedrive-icon-from-windows-10-desktop/

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Hi Moonshine,

thanks, and yes, that’s the same .reg file I attached to my post, which I use to restore the icon after it’s gone missing. But what I’m trying to find out is why the icon keeps disappearing, and how to prevent its MIA status to begin with.

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Sorry my link wasn’t helpful.
I don’t see a Reg file attached in you OP.

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Ah, no worries, I appreciate the reply regardless. In my OP, I said the .reg file was “attached as a text file”, and it is (Reset-OneDrive.txt).

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It’s not a registry file, and the text doesn’t even refer to the registry.

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Oops, right you are, I attached the wrong file LOL. My bad, I’ll fix the OP if I can.

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I attached the wrong file to my OP, so I was going to attach the correct file (a .reg file saved as a .txt file), but apparently this is not permitted even as a text file (something about a potential wolf in sheep’s clothing?).

But making the OneDrive icon re-appear involves making a change to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER-Software-Microsoft-Windows-CurrentVersion-Explorer-HideDesktopIcons-NewStartPanel], and setting the dword value to 00000000 for the entry representing the OneDrive icon.

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Same problem!!! and it is getting dam old. Windows removes the icon by changing the registry!!!! WHY?

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