Windows 10: My old icons and desktop screen disappeared after an upgrade. How do I restore them?

My windows 10 was recently updated. I cannot get my desktop back with all of my icons. Please help

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Desktop Icons disappeared

Hi Kinsley,

• Are you referring to the desktop icons?
• When did the icons disappear? Did you make any changes to the system Settings?

It's possible that your device is in Tablet mode. I suggest you to turn it off and check if the icons appear. To do so, select the
Action center icon on the taskbar (the little message box next to the date and time), and then select
Tablet mode to turn it on or off.

Also refer the following thread which discusses about a similar issue.

Windows 10 - Desktop icons disappeared - I may have hit something that is causing my problem

Hope this helps. Keep us updated with the status of the issue to continue assisting you further.

Thank you.

 

Desktop icons

After this last update, the desktop completely changed. The desktop icons disappeared and the Start window functions also changed. There is no longer a list of programs coming up on the left side of the screen and the tiles showing on the right. Only the
tiles aare showing up on the whole screen. A right click on the desktop does not work. All I can find are solutions from 2015.

Any suggestions?

 

The desktop icons disappeared

I am using using windows 10 on surface 4. The desktop icons have disappeared and cannot be restored. Right click does not work on destop screen. This happened earlier also, but could be restored with restart.