I had this question after viewing
Dual monitors; open apps on #2 only.
I came back to this question to find out how to recover my missing desktop icons but discovered that only part of the exchange gets saved so can't find the answer I was looking for.
Today, when I started my computer all the icon on my #2 monitor's desktop were gone and all the icons on my #1's monitor were on the #2 monitor! I want to recover the icons that were on my #2 monitor.
I was told in this posting to copy the icons from a folder but I don't remember what the folder was called or where I can find it.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28970639/Icons-shifted-off-2-monitor-to-the-1-monitor.html
Shortcuts in Windows all have the file extension ".lnk" so if you've herded all your shortcuts from one monitor into a folder but forgotten where you put it you can open a Windows Explorer window and search for any shortcut using the search term
*.lnk
- my guess is you'll find it in C:\Users\<Your profile name>\Desktop