Windows 10: icons missing on desktop and taskbar after removing OneDrive and ...

I uninstalled OneDrive earlier today, and it has turned out to be a BIG mistake. There are now no icons on my desktop except the Recycle Bin, and all icons have disappeared from my task bar except for the standard Microsoft apps (volume, battery, network etc.). A couple of icons are also missing from Start (programs I've installed), and my personalized Firefox browser is missing all sorts of icons (mainly for addons), and has a few other problems as well. *cry

The culprit may not entirely be OneDrive, however. A couple of hours ago I also changed the name of my user profile, following the instructions given here:

How to Rename User Profile Directory in Windows 10, 8 and 7 | Password Recovery

When I logged on to Windows again using my own account, I got a message saying that the OneDrive folder in the old profile could no longer be found.

I've now reinstalled OneDrive and the desktop icons (and relative files) are still stored there but I don't know how to get them back onto my desktop. Neither do I know how to restore all of the other missing icons.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!



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Safely Remove Hardware icon missing


Hi
In the last few days the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon has gone missing from my Taskbar. Also, if I right-click on the USB stick or USB hard drive in 'This Computer' the Eject option is missing.
In PC Settings/Personalisation/Taskbar/Notification area/Select which icons appear on the taskbar I have 'Always show all icons in the notification area' switched on & all items in the list are in the 'on' state including 'Windows Explorer (Safely Remove Hardware & Eject Media).
Any suggestions?

 

OneDrive icon suddenly in taskbar - can't remove


Hello cedar, *Smile


It looks like the OneDrive folder icon is showing from the Desktop toolbar being added to the taskbar and expanded open (dragged) to the left some to expose it.

If you don't want the Desktop toolbar, then you can remove it to also remove the OneDrive icon.

*Arrow Remove Toolbars on Taskbar in Windows 10

If you do want the Desktop folder, then you can drag that line just to the left of the Desktop to the right until OneDrive is hidden.

 

Removing desktop icons

the icons are located in 'all users' folder somewhere (for example, i see a few shared icons in "C:\Users\Public\Desktop" )

The only way to fix those, is to remove the icons from there, and place them on to each users desktops manually. an admin may need to do this.