when explorer crashes, and you lose the desktop and taskbar....
if you have got any programs running (like media player or notepad etc...),

1.) go to file/open/ 
2.) choose a file to open by pressing shift and right clicking ,(any file, eg. a 
text file),  and select "OPEN WITH" 
3.) choose explorer from the list. Explorer should now load back up.
this usually works for me.





On Friday, January 4, 2002 at 9:58 am, Benjamin wrote:
>I have a question about How 
>do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes:

>
>
>My explorer.exe seems to have crashed, and I need to know if and how I can get my 
>taskbar and desk top back w/o losing the info on my hard drive. I am running windows 
>98. The explorer error is as follows:
>
>EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module EXPLORER.EXE at 015f:00401f31.
>Rgeisters:
>EAX=00000000 CS=015f EIP=00401f31 EFLGS=00010202 
>EBX=00000001 SS=0167 ESP=005fff20 EBP=005fff28
>ECX=00000001 DS=0167 ESI=00000000 FS=2687
>EDX=005fff30 ES=0167 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
>Bytes at CS:EIP:
>8b 08 50 ff 11 8b 45 08 50 8b 08 ff 51 08 8b 45
>Stack dump:
>00401ee0 005fff30 005fff68 00405cac 00000000
>00000000 00000000 00000001 00404436 0059fc30
>00000008 00000000 00000000 0000ffff 65f21fcb
>00000001
>
>After I close this error, my desk top graphics appear, but no icons or task bar. 
>If I hit control+alt+delete, the close program box comes up, but there are no programs 
>running so all I can do is restart or shutdown.
>
>Does anyone have a solution to this problem???
>
>Thanks.
>

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