>>we are placing shortcuts in the windows\desktop folder using both foxpro code and installshield setups however sometimes the desktop icons are not showing up.
>>i don't have any consistancy to it yet ( am really going off the helpdesk's comments )
>>anyone have any ideas why this might have happened?
>Not an expert, but there are many reports that deleting the ShellIconCache file from the Windows root dir causes Win 95 to rebuild the desktop icons.

thanks for the reply. it turns out they had user profiles setup so when we copied a file to c:\windows\desktop they didn't show. this was because the active desktop was c:\windows\profiles\user1\desktop