
It is not the clients because this happens whether the user logs on through an HP ThinClient (Windows and Linux based), Windows 7, and when creating an RDP session from one of the other servers.Good timing: It was just a few days ago I wrote about how to create, manage and update your bookmarks within Google Chrome itself! What you’re doing is even more old school for most users, actually taking up desktop real estate for individual shortcut files so you can jump to favorite Web sites easily.

We though it might be a problem with our anti-virus ESET, but we changed to Windows SCEP over the weekend but the problem persists. (But I don't have exactly the same printers and programs on both servers). Sometimes I can log them on our 2nd RDP server and their desktop, taskbar and start menu appear correctly. I have tried forcefully logging them off as administrator and trying again, but in the end I have to restart the server to get these users to work normally again. It doesn't sound too bad, but most of my users don't have icons for programs on their desktop, but rather on their start menu. Alt+Tab does allow you to cycle through open programs.

If you minimize a program it disappears (does not Right clicking and refreshing the desktop shows the icons and files and programs on the desktop can be run normally. Ctrl+Shift+Esc brings up the Task Manager but most tabs are blank. Upon returning and logging on again to their terminal, the desktop and taskbar are blank.

If a user logs on to the server in the morning, and all icons and programs appear and work fine.

It is only affecting a handful of my users. About a month ago our Terminal Servers started giving some troubles.
