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After using the Windows Easy Transfer tool to migrate files from a Windows XP to a Windows 7 machine, you may notice that some shortcut icons are missing. This may occur with icons that are mapped to items stored on a network location.
This will occur if the item that the shortcut is pointing to is not reachable on the network by the target computer.
For example, you may have a shortcut to a document stored on a network location on your Windows XP desktop. You use Windows Easy Transfer to migrate user data from this Windows XP machine to a new Windows 7 machine. If the Windows 7 machine does not have access to the target item or location on the network, the icon will not be created on the desktop.
There are two workarounds to this issue:
1. Ensure that the new machine has access to the same network locations as the old machine.
2. When choosing a shortcut that links to a network shared file, manually select the source file on the network share to include it in the migration.
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