I’m in the process of recovering from a system disk crash - installing stuff & the like.
I just happened to notice that Windows File Explorer only shows 2 items in the Desktop but if you look at my actual Desktop there are 16 items. Explorer is set to display Hidden Files, and none of the missing items (that I checked) were set to be Hidden.
Any Windows experts have an idea of what would cause this? More a mystery than a problem.
Fortunately all the library disks are fine. The new PC is on order - apparently graphics chips are big slice of the chip shortage, so who knows when it’ll get here. Meanwhile I’ve only reinstalled Steinberg stuff, figure it doesn’t make sense to install a bunch of 3rd party software, only to repeat the effort 2 weeks later - however that will put a bunch of go-to items out of reach.
Maybe that soon-to-be-old machine can serve you for another decade… my old nearly 10 year old desktop with a i7-3770k still works as a backup server and a few other things.
I think it already qualifies as old. But there is a whole succession plan. The old DAW become the new office work PC, and the old office PC replaces the super old laptop who’s only job is to stream audio & video to the stereo & TV. Oddly this laptop died just a couple of days before the DAW with the exact same error - but it is beyond revival.