I have installed Windows 7 Pro RTM, and every time that I restart, the desktop icons vanish. I right click the desktop, select the view desktop icons option, and they reappear. However, this setting does not save when the computer is restarted, and I must repeat the process every time. Is there a setting that could be conflicting with the view desktop icons option?Any insight would be greatlyappreciated.

Where did you obtain Windows 7 RTM from?Carey Frisch

I received it from my university.

When we choose show to now show desktop icons, system will change the following value in registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced --- a value named "HideIcons". Please manually change the data of the value "HideIcons" to 0, restart the computer to see if issue still exists. If so, I suggest that let's create a new account to see the result.