'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 6:47 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) Those MS updates have been causing more problems lately. It's getting ridiculous... If you can't access any desktop icons or anything, the only thing I can suggest is to restore a known good registry backup. Unless...do you have a Windows Keyboard? If so, and you can bring up the start menu, you should be able to access RUN. Then you should be able to repair I.E. That may fix the problem. To restore the registry, it's important this is done as soon as possible. If it's over 5 days, it's too late. There are 5 backups by default. Once a day on bootup, the registry is backed up. Reboot and hold the CTRL button down, until you get the boot menu. Choose Command prompt only. At the C:\> type: scanreg /restore and press enter. Choose a date before this happened. When finished, type: win and hit enter and see whether you can get back into Windows. Btw, I'm curious as to what "fixes" you installed. ...Carol... Written in response to: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Marilyn: Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 6:25 pm) Responses to this message: re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (JmC: Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 7:07 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Marilyn: Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 7:19 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Marilyn: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 6:25 pm) 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 6:47 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (JmC: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 7:07 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Marilyn: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 7:19 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 7:42 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Marilyn: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 8:16 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 8:26 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Marilyn: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 8:48 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 9:11 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 9:35 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Marilyn: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 9:40 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 9:46 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Marilyn: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 9:58 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 10:18 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Brendon: Fri, Jul 29, 2005, 11:42 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (gewg_: Sat, Jul 30, 2005, 10:58 am) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Brendon: Sat, Jul 30, 2005, 3:00 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (JmC: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 7:42 pm) re: 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Marilyn: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 7:45 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (JmC: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 6:51 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 7:00 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum