Its happened twice now ill leave my computer on and it will be still running but the screen with be on sleep ill come back and some of my desktop icons will be missing, it seems to be some of my game explorer icons, any one had this problem?

I have a similar problem with disappearing icons. When I install a program the installer will put an icon on the desktop. I usually rename the icon to include the version of the software installed. After I finish renaming the icon it disappears. Then I go find the executable and create a new shortcut to the desktop. Now both icons appear. I can delete the icon I created and the original icon remains. Maybe a display driver problem?

yer one of my mates had your problem its to do with the refresh, if you refresh the desktop the icon will come back it disappears on rename.

Hi, I did a check on our bug database and its a known bug on Windows 7 beta version. Our engineers are working on it now. It should be fixed in future. Thank you for your understanding.

Thanks for letting me know

I have the same prob on 7077 version. Is there a solution yet? I'm looking forward to buy the final version in september (I hope) I really love w7 !

I'm on build 7100 and it's still a problem. Refreshing the desktop is a no-go.

I'm on build 7100 and it's still a problem. Refreshing the desktop is a no-go. me too. been having this problem since 7000 up to now (RC1/7100). when i drag items on start menu to rearrange them, all the icons just disappear. i need to log out and log back in to resolve the issue. any fix yet?

I got a message from MS that we had to learn living with it:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/1caa5faa-637a-4aab-be3e-c0b9c6247a04/I hope not, because these bugs are really annoying.How can we test with no bugs to get solved?

Here's something to try. I think your computer thinks it has two monitors and only one woke up or they did not wake up at the same time. What is happenbing is that all your icons are off to the left but you can't reach them. I discovered this when I pressed the "home" button on my keyboard that normally brings up my internet homepage (it is on most keyboards a little picture of a house in the upper right or left). I saw a small movement on the left of my screen -- which had been completely blank except for the wallpaper and unresponsive up to that moment -- and realized it was the very right hand edge of my home page. I was able to drag it to the right so I could see it. I thus realized my computer was up and running but all the icons, taskbars etc were shifted left, off to an imaginary screen on the left. Next time you are rebooted and running, go to your display control center (you may be able to get it by right clicking on the desktop). If you see two monitors shown as running and you only have one monitor, this is probably why you are having the problem. Make the changes and apply so that you only have one monitor recognized by your computer. I think my computer believed I had two because my monitor came with two cables (a VGA and some other type). I hooked them both up, so the computer sees two output lines and doesn't know they go the same screen. The problem has occurred with a number of gateway computers from looking at the verious discussion sites and forums; I know the Gateway comes with two cables and doesn't tell you which one is the right one for your screen, so a lot of people may be connecting both cables to the same screen. See if this works.