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There could be two reason why desktop icons would disappear. One would be that there is simply too little RAM to maintain the explorer.exe file. The second would be that the explorer.exe file is corrupt.

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Q: Why do your desktop icons disappear when you click on any icon and only reappear after rebooting?
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