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by taneq 1137 days ago
You know what's even more awesome? Select the desktop and press Ctrl+Z. The last thing you did in Explorer gets undone. Even if it was copying a 100GB file from a network share drive onto your local hard drive. Even if that was weeks ago. It's fantastic.
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I was going to post this exact issue.

It's been a thing as far back as I can remember.

The worst part is when you don't remember what the last thing you moved was. You know you've undone something, but you don't know what it is.

Is something going to be broken now?

Are you going to lose something that's now in a place where you weren't expecting it to be any more?

Good luck figuring it out!

Yeah because the desktop is just a special File explorer view.
Does it at least show a confirmation prompt?
Haha you'd think so but nope. I found this out by hitting Ctrl+Z while editing a Word document, no realizing I'd accidentally clicked on the desktop. Next minute, the 14GB VM image that I'd copied to my local machine a week ago was missing.