Red x on desktop windows xp

By setting your system in clean boot state helps in identifying if any third party applications or startup items are causing the issue. Let us know the status of the issue after performing the troubleshooting steps. If you need any further assistance or information about Windows, I will be glad to help you. We, at Microsoft strive towards excellence. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Geethu B's post on February 22, Debbie Peterson Win7.

In reply to fenderbender's post on February 22, I have gotten Red X's ever since my new pc was installed. Over drives in My Computer and over desktop icons. Does not appear to effect anything but very irritating. In reply to Debbie Peterson Win7's post on March 7, Delete it, then go back to desktop and refresh either f5 or right click and select refresh. If it keeps occurring, I might suggest taking a backup and running a file scan as it can be both malware or a dodgy harddrive that keeps corrupting your files.

In reply to Highfall's post on January 26, Yes that fixed it. Also remove the checkbox next to upload all photos to Google. You may have to manually remove files from your google drive to free up space there. Why the red x on my pictures? In reply to GlennMasson's post on April 23, Files with red crosses with file contents missing???

How do I get back my files windows In reply to juliewebb1's post on May 17, Hey presto, they were back to normal.

Which is ok if you don't use the one drive like me. In reply to RobertJWin's post on October 1, Unfortunately these original instructions never reached me and after multiple phone calls back to the Help Desk did a rep cobble together supposedly from his notes what one needed to do to perform this. The Original text was a bit sketchy "?

The problem is I cannot get the procedure as written to work. When I use the "net use" command, no Mapped Drives appear in explorer. So I'm hoping others with more knowledge than I can make whatever corrections are required to make this work. Below are my instructions Top and the original Help Desk instructions Step-by-step instructions to correct inability for Mapped Drives in Windows 10 to be loaded automatically after each boot. Where drive letter is for example m: or y:.

Then use this command line to re-map the drive. To troubleshoot whether the issue is related to the specific NAS device, please try to share a folder on another Windows system and try to map that folder to have a test. Please mark the reply as an answer if you find it is helpful. Though I was observing the techs screen processes, I evidently missed some steps as the fact that the Mapped Drive issue resolved itself.

The frustrating part is that the instructions supplied failed me. May I ask if you ever tried your the steps your provided yourself for this exact issue? I'm in the process now of cloning several drives so I can sandbox the attempts and determine what actually works. Hi Marc Rob,. So here's what I performed and the results thus far I started with a newly cloned drive that was "virginal", i.

The Map Drive issue I'm sure you either did a search on the topic or knew of it Before is a tough one to crack as you obviously are at a disadvantage if you can't perform the steps yourself to confirm which ones are actually working towards the repair.

I am not a Windows Network Pro so I appreciate your patience in providing steps that a lay person can apply. Do you believe they are not applicable in this case? I am presently still attempting to extract the step by step from him.

Unless you are actually able to TEST the steps you advise, anyone can offer advice. It's the results that are needed of course. The Help Desk at MS who originally solved this issue and was supposed to email me the specific steps to do this on subsequent installations has failed repeatedly to deliver what they promised. I've made 6 phone calls and spoken with various departments who continue to tell me that they will be contacting the original tech, but I am still waiting.

I've been cloning drives that are of WIN 10 with no other added software and using them as a test bed to try to replicate the steps that will solve this.. The frustrating part here is that we have both the Case and the Tech's name, yet most of the "Supervisors" I have spoken with have been somewhat reticent to resolve this by contacting the needed department.

Some have flatly told me they cannot assist me further. Hi George. If you have good idea or you have some good ideas to troubleshoot this issue.

I would appreciate it if you could share it with us. I am always eager to learn something. As you can see from my reply to you that the commands you offered as a possible solution require me to invoke "ADMIN"Privileges If you are administrator of this machine, please right click the start menu and choose "command prompt admin ". Sorry if I had not stated that earlier. Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support.

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