Windows 10: Desktop items Windows 10!

Good morning, I have been doing my usual maintenance this morning and have forgot how to do something! I have removed a lot of my items from my desktop screen but how do I put some of them back? It is easy unpinning live tiles and putting them back but not so on the desk top screen! I have followed various methods but that doesn't let me put things I want back. Am I right in saying it depends on which version your using? In my case Windows 10 22H2 ! I just want to put selected items back on the Desk top! I seem to think it was a piece of cake but not now!!Brian maybe it's a age issue ha

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Windows 10 Desktop items not on Desktop

Start by turning off Show all folders in the Navigation Pane options:





Then, get comfortable and wrap your head around the
Shell Namespace.

The rooted Desktop (the one confusing you) is a virtual folder, items in this folder are either file sytem items from:

• shell:desktop (User Desktop folder)
• shell:common desktop (Public Desktop folder)

or they are inserted into the namespace via the registry:

• HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\desktop\namespace
• HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\desktop\namespace

 

Desktop items open Libreoffice; windows bugged and flickering

My mother's PC had the most bizarre bug I've ever seen this morning.

PC specs: Windows 10 Home 64bit
Version: 1903 when problem occurred (1909 now)

What happened:

• all desktop items, including folders, opened in Libreoffice Writer; once open it displayed a blank document then began flickering as if it had bugged while scrolling
• opened Task Manager from the task bar, selecting the second tab opened the final tab, which began flickering like Libreoffice
• problems stopped after a restart, then occurred again after another restart; then stopped after the PC ran for a short time
• no error popups or BSODs
• she said Candycrush reported an error earlier but it didn't occur when I looked at it; she said it mentioned "something about the desktop"

Steps I've taken:

• did a quick virus scan then reboot scan with Windows Defender; no problems found
• sfc /scannow; no problems found
• installed update KB4537572 and upgraded system to 1909; updates appear to have been successful, no other updates available

At the moment the problem has disappeared, but since it reoccurred previously I'm not sure it hasn't been fixed.

I'm out of ideas. What else can I check and what other tests can I run? Based on the given information could anyone suggest what the problem might be?