No Desktop

Recently, one of our office computers came up with an error message; I'm not
sure how, but staff restarted the computer, and now no desktop icons, start
button, or taskbars will appear. We just have a blank desktop (background
pic is there). We can access programs through the Task Manager, but that is
a pain. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

If your office staff can't fix it, this is a good try at a fix.

Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm

However, I don't think it's free for commercial use.

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"Vicki" wrote in message
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Recently, one of our office computers came up with an error message; I'm
not
sure how, but staff restarted the computer, and now no desktop icons,
start
button, or taskbars will appear. We just have a blank desktop
(background
pic is there). We can access programs through the Task Manager, but that
is
a pain. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

sometimes you can
open up the task manager
and "kill" the process
called explorer.exe

then go the first tab
in the task manager
and launch a new
task called explorer.exe

if the above method displays
the desktop appropriately
then there may be a problem
with the registry hive loading.

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"Vicki" wrote in message
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Recently, one of our office computers came up with an error message; I'm not
sure how, but staff restarted the computer, and now no desktop icons, start
button, or taskbars will appear. We just have a blank desktop (background
pic is there). We can access programs through the Task Manager, but that is
a pain. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Vicki

Right click on Desktop and select Arrange Icons by, and Show Desktop
icons. If that works we can look at the other missing items.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Vicki wrote:
Recently, one of our office computers came up with an error message;
I'm not sure how, but staff restarted the computer, and now no
desktop icons, start button, or taskbars will appear. We just have
a blank desktop (background pic is there). We can access programs
through the Task Manager, but that is a pain. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:59:02 -0700, Vicki wrote:

Try booting to Safe Mode. If that works, run a System Restore back to the day before
the problem began.

NRJ

Recently, one of our office computers came up with an error message; I'm not
sure how, but staff restarted the computer, and now no desktop icons, start
button, or taskbars will appear. We just have a blank desktop (background
pic is there). We can access programs through the Task Manager, but that is
a pain. Any suggestions?

Thanks!