Windows 10: Photos on desktop PC HP W7 Appearing as icons: does the advice that I have copied and...

I also have photos on an external hard drive, that once appeared as photos, also upon trying to open them on the PC, actually also a second PC running W10, appearing as icons of various different kinds amongst a file of 15 photos out of a total of about 25.

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Having trouble copying photos from Samsung S6 to Windows 10 laptop


Hi. My father has a Samsung S6 and wishes to copy photos from it to a Windows 10 laptop.

When I visited him recently we were able to copy photos from his S6 to his Windows 10 desktop PC without any issues (with phone connected to PC USB port). But we couldn't manage to copy them to his new laptop, a HP Pavilion x360 (Windows 10).

We searched Google and tried a few suggestions (updating drivers for S6 via Device Manager, and uninstalling S6 > restarting HP x360 > reinstalling S6) but with no success (when S6 was connected to HP x360 there was always yellow triangle with exclamation mark next to HP icon in 'Devices and drives' in 'This PC')

Any advice would be very appreciated.

 

HP Support Assistant Icon disappeared from desktop -

I did follow these steps and HP Support Assistant was gone from my taskbar list. What I did notice on my desktop was that my HP printer was now on my desktop. I clicked on the printer and the same menu for HP Support Assistant comes up. So the HP Support
Icon is replaced by Printer ICON. Thank you for your help.

 

Remove Linux Desktop Icons

I am not sure whether this will work (Ubuntu does not have icons like that on the desktop by default), but I suggest opening the trash bin and sweeping the icons into the window showing the trash bin.