Unable to Access the Desktop Items

[Philbert]

Hi,
I am facing some strange problem related to displaying desktop items,I have installed AVG free anti-virus for protection on the Internet,But from since last two days computer were taking too much time to shutdown,and also takes time to start up. Today also same thing has happened while opening then desktop items are not been displaying.
It really scares me, this kind of problem has occurred first time with me, I am not able to come up with any kind of conclusion, how this has happened.

please Help!

[Vitus]

If you prefer to resolve the issue manually, perform the following:

1. Click Start, Run.
2. Type regedit.exe.
3. Navigate to the following registry key:
   
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
   HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel (wrapped for easy reading)
   Note: If HideDesktopIcons and NewStartPanel do not exist, create new registry keys for them.
   
4. In the right hand pane, double-click {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} key.
   
   If the registry value name does not exist, create a new DWORD value and name it as {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}
5. Enter dword value data as 0 to enable the Internet Explorer icon on the Desktop.
   
   For user who’re using Classic Start Menu, replace NewStartPanel with ClassicStartMenu instead so that the registry key location is as follow:
   
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
   Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\ClassicStartMenu (wrapped for easy reading)
   
   Other steps are exactly the same with the above. Refresh the desktop after change to display the IE desktop icon.

[Benedict]

Hi,
please check whether you have checked in the "Hide the Desktop item" option,for that Right click on the start select "Properties" from the cascading menu.
Taskbar Tab will get open, Uncheck the "Hide the Desktop Item".

Thanks