Desktop is Frozen with contents of some other Drive

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St. Phatty

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• Jan 27, 2019

• #1

I set my Windows 7 desktop to black, and the file and folder icons are on top of that.

For about 6 months I had the desktop set to my external drive, which is not a great move, because it's SLOW.

And, there were hundreds of folders & icons, so the desktop was this big crowded mess of folders & icons.

So now I fixed it, so the Desktop is mapped to an internal hard drive, a 1 Terabyte Samsung.

But ......................

The desktop appearance hasn't changed.

The 1 Terabyte Samsung is all folders, no files.

But the desktop appearance is the same super-crowded "F" (external) drive that it was before.


How do I get the Desktop to show the icons on the drive it's mapped to ?


Anyway, will do Help search for Map Desktop & see what happens.

The computer has 2x 256 MB solid state drives. Originally the OS went on one and the desktop was mapped to the other.


PS Fixed it.

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buzzmobile

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• Jan 27, 2019

• #2

Did you use the 16 oz. hammer or the 8 lb. sledge?

 

Ringodoggie

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420giveaway

• Jan 27, 2019

• #3

One thing for sure. Your drives are too full. Windows uses space on your hard drives for cache and for other tasks. Having less than 20% free on any mechanical hard drive is probably asking for a drive failure sooner or later.

 

aridbud

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• Jan 27, 2019

• #4

Ringodoggie said:

One thing for sure. Your drives are too full. Windows uses space on your hard drives for cache and for other tasks. Having less than 20% free on any mechanical hard drive is probably asking for a drive failure sooner or later.

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Yes, full drive. Partition/FAT or wipe down....or buy a larger cache external drive.

 

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St. Phatty

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• Jan 27, 2019

• #5

buzzmobile said:

Did you use the 16 oz. hammer or the 8 lb. sledge?

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450 Bushmaster.

 

AgentPothead

Just this guy, ya know?

• Jan 28, 2019

• #6

Googling I found a person with the same problem who says they fixed it by using https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...ortcuts/0cfe39d3-16c7-49c3-b538-6d5a3f5b6abe/
It's something to do with shortcuts and mapped drives. I found the link by googling for desktop show icons drive mapped

 

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St. Phatty

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• Jan 30, 2019

• #7

Thanks for all the HELP !!!

I got a semi-normal desktop now.

Someone is right about the de-fragging.

I have used up all the SATA drive connectors, but I have 2 DVD's.

I was going to remove one of the DVD's and give that SATA connector to another internal Hard Drive.

Narrowed it down at Newegg to this one and a few others -
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?reviews=all&Item=N82E16822231534

I think the product reviews at Newegg are a great tech resource. The quality products have a very distinctive bell curve, 90% plus approval in the 4 star & 5 star category.

BUT it's very hard to find late model hard drives that are 'beloved'.

The beloved drives are the Western Digital Raptors, fast lower capacity drives. I have one myself and I love it. 300 GB & very fast boot drive, like an SSD but it makes much cooler sounds.

I know some people don't care about what sounds a machine makes, but I do

Anyway I wish Google and the NSA would publicize their hard drive reliability statistics. For us Geeks.

 

AgentPothead

Just this guy, ya know?

• Jan 30, 2019

• #8

Google and the NSA are jerks, but backblaze publishes their hdd reliability chart every year.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-q1-2018/

 

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Teddybrae

• Jan 30, 2019

• #9

Windows 7 ????? !!!!

 

Gypsy Nirvana

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• Jan 30, 2019

• #10

I dunno about de-fragging - better just frag the bloody thing and start all over again - lol