Apr/102
Windows 7: Desktop Icons suddenly disappear
I love Windows 7! It’s robust, fast, looks great and command lines / power shell / wmi / scripting platforms are just awesome.
In other words: It kicks the hell out of a Banana (or some other proprietary fruit I can’t remember).
However, there still are some little things that cause headache: Why would anyone do this!?
This is what I thought after my desktop shortcuts disappeared for the 3rd time after a while being unused.
Turned out there is a maintenance Task that runs as a Scheduled task under Windows 7. It executes various powershell scripts including this:
%windir%\diagnostics\scheduled\Maintenance\
RS_RemoveUnusedDesktopIcons.ps1
If you comment out line 57, you should be good to go and your Desktop Icons won’t disappear anymore:
Replace “Remove-FileList $deleteList”
with “# Remove-FileList $deleteList”
Note: To edit the file you must first take ownership and grant you permissions to it!
Hope that helps…
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“vssadmin list writers” does not return any writers
If you get one of the following events in your Application Event Log, try the solution below:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: VSS
Event ID: 20
Description: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: A critical component required by the Volume Shadow Copy Service is not registered. This might happened if an error occurred during Windows setup or during installation of a Shadow Copy provider. The error returned from CoCreateInstance on class with CLSID {faf53cc4-bd73-4e36-83f1-2b23f46e513e} and Name VSSEvent is [0x80040154].
Event Type: Error
Event Source: VSS
Event ID: 20
Description: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: A critical component required by the Volume Shadow Copy Service is not registered. This might happened if an error occurred during Windows setup or during installation of a Shadow Copy provider. The error returned from CoCreateInstance on class with CLSID {faf53cc4-bd73-4e36-83f1-2b23f46e513e} and Name VSSEvent is [0x80004002].
Event Type: Error
Event Source: VSS
Event ID: 8193
Description: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0×80040154.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: VSS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 8193
Description: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0×80004002.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: VSS
Event ID: 12302
Description: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: An internal inconsistency was detected in trying to contact shadow copy service writers. Please check to see that the Event Service and Volume Shadow Copy Service are operating properly.
Solution:
Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
Type the following commands at a command prompt. Press ENTER after you type each command.
cd /d %windir%\system32
Net stop vss
Net stop swprv
regsvr32 ole32.dll
regsvr32 oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 vss_ps.dll
vssvc /register
regsvr32 /i swprv.dll
regsvr32 /i eventcls.dll
regsvr32 es.dll
regsvr32 stdprov.dll
regsvr32 vssui.dll
regsvr32 msxml.dll
regsvr32 msxml3.dll
regsvr32 msxml4.dll
cd /d %windir%\system32
Net stop vss
Net stop swprv
regsvr32 ole32.dll
regsvr32 oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 vss_ps.dll
vssvc /register
regsvr32 /i swprv.dll
regsvr32 /i eventcls.dll
regsvr32 es.dll
regsvr32 stdprov.dll
regsvr32 vssui.dll
regsvr32 msxml.dll
regsvr32 msxml3.dll
regsvr32 msxml4.dll
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