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re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes'
Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 10:38 am
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Posted by Dave Harding (12 messages posted)


Thanks Steve, I will try that. I should add that safe boot works properly and I get all icons,taskbar and start button.


On Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 3:39 am, Steve Easton wrote:
>Sound very much like a virus. However you can try this. Boot to safe mode by tapping
>F8 when you see "Starting Windows 95" and selecting Safe mode on the selection screen.
>If it gets there Click start, run, type: regedit and click ok. click the plus signs
>by: Local Machine. ENUM and MF. Under MF will be CHILD 0000 and CHILD0001. delete
>them both and restart the machine and tell it normal mode if prompted. It "should"
>say: found new device loading software." When it asks to reboot tell it NO and it
>will again say "found new device" Keep telling it NO until it is done and in the
>desktop
>
>


>On Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 9:37 pm, Dave Harding wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes
:


>I have the same problem but I'm not sure if Explorer is involved. There is no start
>button, no taskbar and no icons. The wallpaper is visible and so is the mouse cursor
>which will move.
>Control+Alt+Delete brings up an empty Task list window with 6 buttons, none of which
>work except to close the window.
>Any help? I need this computer for a seniors' class.
>


Written in response to:
re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Steve Easton: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 3:39 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Steve Easton: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 11:08 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Dave Harding: Tue, Feb 26, 2002, 9:37 pm)
-re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Steve Easton: Wed, Feb 27, 2002, 3:39 am)
-re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Dave Harding: Wed, Feb 27, 2002, 10:38 am)
-re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Steve Easton: Wed, Feb 27, 2002, 11:08 am)
-re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Dave Harding: Wed, Feb 27, 2002, 9:27 pm)
-re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Steve Easton: Thu, Feb 28, 2002, 4:38 am)
-re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Dave Harding: Thu, Feb 28, 2002, 5:04 pm)
-re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Steve Easton: Fri, Mar 1, 2002, 4:12 pm)
-re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Dave Harding: Sat, Mar 2, 2002, 11:25 pm)
-re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Steve Easton: Sun, Mar 3, 2002, 6:21 am)
-re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Dave Harding: Sun, Mar 3, 2002, 10:18 pm)
-re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Steve Easton: Mon, Mar 4, 2002, 3:21 am)
-re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Dave Harding: Mon, Mar 4, 2002, 10:15 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Steve Easton: Tue, Mar 5, 2002, 4:58 am)
*re: how to get the desktop back if Explorer crashes? (Ted Horwitz: Mon, Apr 15, 2002, 10:05 am)
*Win9x - Recovering data if you lose explorer (Andrew Thornton: Thu, Apr 25, 2002, 4:24 am)
-re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Bob Veris: Sun, Feb 2, 2003, 11:21 am)
*re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Dave Harding: Tue, Feb 4, 2003, 10:42 pm)
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