Roland, PC Magazine used to have a freebie for win 98 that was called TrayManager 
that was supposed to restore the tray icons/shell in the event of a crash. I have 
it installed on my xp --i still have shell crashes, some worse than others 

-- ctrl+alt+del restores my shell now to enable a proper reboot.

with win98 you could try a repair -- you need your win98 disk -- cant remember much 
more  -think it is done thru add/delete function of control panel

Pc Mag do not have freebies anymore -- think they want $20/year for their little 
gems now
pbyk





On Wednesday, December 10, 2003 at 10:25 pm, roland wrote:
>I have a question about How 
>do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes:

>
>
>I got my icons and taskbar back but everytime I reboot or shutdown I loose it again 
>then I have to do the same process all over to recover my icons and taskbar.  It 
>seems my system is still not functioning properly.  I do notice when I do a file 
>search and type in "explorer" I got some "explorer file" that doesn't have "created 
>date".  Are this normal?  I'm thinking of
>deleting the files and hope it will fix my problem.  But before I do that let me 
>hear from you guys.  You've help me once hope  you will educate me more.   

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