Here is the gist: my user has a local folder on her PC, running Windows 7 32-bit, that she has template documents (Word documents that have the essentials, and then get modified) in. Normally, she loads one of these Templates, makes the necessary changes, and then does a Save As to her desktop. Here is the kicker, sometimes those documents are visible on the desktop, other times they are not. When they cannot be seen on the actual desktop, you can still find the files by opening the Explorer and browsing to the Desktop folder. Weird right? And please do not tell me that all I need to do is right click on the desktop and select Show Icons- I checked that first. Also, creating a shortcut to these documents is not sufficient either, as these documents will be uploaded to a website. Anyone have experience with this? Fixes? Thanks in advance.

I had the same problem. Turns out there are multiple settings for desktop display. Go to Control Panel>Personalization>Change Desktop Icons and make sure user's files is checked.

That worked for the aforementioned Word Documents. I have another poser, however- when saving pdf's from a website they are not visible on the desktop or in the explorer. Strangely enough, if you are on a website that allows importing/uploading files, you can click on the Browse... link that is available and the pdf's are visible in the explorer that pops up. Any advice for this?

I only experienced something like that once and using F5 to refresh the desktop fixed it.