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  1. #1
    Phoenix Guest

    Desktop Disappeared

    My desktop and taskbar disappeared yesterday after I was trying to end a
    program through the task manager and just grew impatient and just restarted
    the laptop.

    Now whenever I boot up, the desktop is gone but My Documents pops up. All
    the programs run and I can acess most of them through My Documents, but I
    can't bring up the start program list by pressingthe windows key, and nothing
    happens when I right click on the desktop.

    I've already tried rolling back and it didn't fix it.

    Any ideas? Thanks?

  2. #2
    Rick Rogers Guest

    Re: Desktop Disappeared

    Hi,

    The shell entry may be damaged in the registry. From Task Manager, click
    'new task' on the applications tab. Type regedit and click ok. Agree to the
    UAC prompt, then expand the branches to reach this one:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

    Click on the Winlogon key, then on the right find the "shell" string. Double
    click it, change the value data to read "explorer.exe" (without the quotes)
    and click ok. Then close the registry editor and restart the system by
    entering another new task as 'shutdown /r'.

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