@burnout426

Yes, it works indeed! Thank you @mathias87!

Months later, still no solution. Anyone?

@burnout426 @nvmjustagirl

Desktops: I did delete the second desktop already

Safemode: I'll try this when I find time, maybe this afternoon. I am sure that the icon will still be gone after reboot, but will see if it appears when starting Opers

GPU: Too much effort for very low chance of interesting result
It's a Nvidia 1060, nothing unusual, I think

What I will also check, is if this is related to user accounts. I'll try if this happens on other accounts.

Default browser: "You always need to click the "options" link in the installer, review the default options and change them if you want."
Yes, that's how it usually works, but not this time, no choice of options. Will pay attention next time.

@nvmjustagirl Hi again, sorry, I'm snowed under currently.
Yes, Win10. Desktop is on D. Simply selected in folder options. That (alone) cannot be the issue. I have the same setup on another PC, no problem there.
About user rights, I also don't think that's it. I removed Opera, then installed it on my admin account. Same issue there. Unfortunately, there was no option to install for all users, so now I don't have it anymore on my normal user account.

(I also found out how Opera made itself default without asking: On one of the installation screens is a small link that says "Options" - and there I found the default opt out. That's a bit sneaky, don't you think. Not your fault, sure, but maybe you have contacts to talk to about that?)

Months later, still no solution. Anyone?

@burnout426

Yes, it works indeed! Thank you @mathias87!

Hi,

I checked the registry and compared the entries on both PCs. They are almost identical. Just one notable difference:
The failing PC has two entries for Desktop, the other only one:

Value 20
Name: Desktop
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: D:\Desktop

Value 26
Name: {754AC886-DF64-4CBA-86B5-F7FBF4FBCEF5}
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: D:\Desktop

The good PC has only the first.

There is nothing in C:\Users\Public\Desktop

The other stuff I cannot check now, in office.

@nvmjustagirl Hi again, sorry, I'm snowed under currently.
Yes, Win10. Desktop is on D. Simply selected in folder options. That (alone) cannot be the issue. I have the same setup on another PC, no problem there.
About user rights, I also don't think that's it. I removed Opera, then installed it on my admin account. Same issue there. Unfortunately, there was no option to install for all users, so now I don't have it anymore on my normal user account.

(I also found out how Opera made itself default without asking: On one of the installation screens is a small link that says "Options" - and there I found the default opt out. That's a bit sneaky, don't you think. Not your fault, sure, but maybe you have contacts to talk to about that?)

The Process Monitor is interesting. Took me a while to get it right. Please find the three log entries that I found for the icon attached.

Well actually, "You do not have enough privileges for this action." - I cannot attach. So here are the contents:

"Time of Day","Process Name","PID","Operation","Path","Result","Detail"
"14:56:55.3420591","launcher.exe","15572","CreateFile","D:\Desktop\Opera browser.lnk","SUCCESS","Desired Access: Generic Read/Write, Delete, Write DAC, Disposition: OverwriteIf, Options: Sequential Access, Non-Directory File, Attributes: A, ShareMode: None, AllocationSize: 0, OpenResult: Created"
"14:56:55.3426861","launcher.exe","15572","CreateFile","D:\Desktop\Opera browser.lnk","SUCCESS","Desired Access: Generic Read/Write, Delete, Write DAC, Disposition: OpenIf, Options: Sequential Access, Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Non-Directory File, Attributes: A, ShareMode: None, AllocationSize: 0, OpenResult: Opened"
"14:56:55.3544577","launcher.exe","15572","CreateFile","D:\Desktop\Opera browser.lnk","SUCCESS","Desired Access: Read Attributes, Disposition: Open, Options: Open Reparse Point, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened"

@burnout426 @nvmjustagirl

Desktops: I did delete the second desktop already

Safemode: I'll try this when I find time, maybe this afternoon. I am sure that the icon will still be gone after reboot, but will see if it appears when starting Opers

GPU: Too much effort for very low chance of interesting result
It's a Nvidia 1060, nothing unusual, I think

What I will also check, is if this is related to user accounts. I'll try if this happens on other accounts.

Default browser: "You always need to click the "options" link in the installer, review the default options and change them if you want."
Yes, that's how it usually works, but not this time, no choice of options. Will pay attention next time.

@nvmjustagirl The icon does not re-appear after reboot. It re-appears each time I start Opera.

@burnout426 I restarted, no difference, then uninstalled and reinstalled, no difference.
(Edit: And Opera also set itself to be the default browser without asking - a rather aggressive move)

@nvmjustagirl Thanks for the suggestions. I always use Shift+Delete. The account may be corrupt, but I don't think so. I think I'd have other issues as well then, but this is the only thing I'm aware of ...

@burnout426
Copy/paste - I hope this helps:

Browser-Identifikation
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.120 Safari/537.36 OPR/64.0.3417.83

Pfade
Installations-Verzeichnis: C:\Program Files\Opera
Profil-Verzeichnis: C:\Users\Myself\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable
Cache-Verzeichnis: C:\Users\Myself\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable

I believe it's for all users, because I always choose that. On same drive as all other programs.
I do have two monitors and two desktops.
It's not a developer version.

I removed the second screen and desktop, but it made no difference. As soon as I start Opera, the icon is back.
Maybe I need to restart the PC before this can have an effect? Not tonight, though, maybe tomorrow.

Thanks!

@leocg Latest, 64.0.3417.83
Thanks!