>I have a question about How 
>do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes:

>
>My computer had been running normally the night before and was shut down properly. 
>I turned the computer on in the morning, everything seemed to be working fine, but 
>all that came up after startup was the desktop wallpaper and no icons or task bar. 
>When I did a ctrl+alt+del, the End Task window showed no tasks. I subsequently did 
>a ctrl+alt+del again to restart and did so in Safe Mode, producing the same results.
>The day previous, I did not do anything out of the ordinary, except installed a 
CD 
>Rom kids game (don't know if this would affect the performance.) I did not open/nor 
>receive any unknown "mysterious" e-mail either.
>
>I have consulted with an other newsgroup and had been suggested to:
> 1) "Restore a backup copy of the registry using ScanReg."
>-I tried doing this for the previous 2 days, with no results, on my third attempt, 
>the "...operation failed."
> 2) "Restart the system and hold down the CTRL key while the system is booting. 
This 
>will take you to the Boot Menu,select Command Prompt Only. Now type Edit C:\Windows\system.ini 
>and look for shell=progman.exe. If found chance to shell=Explorer.exe then save 
and 
>close."
>- I found shell=Exploerer.exe in system.ini
>
>I have looked through the other postings, but am not sure if my explorer.exe is 
corrupt, 
>my computer has a virus, or if I should just reinstall my system altogether. Before 
>I proceed with anything drastic, I will also need to know how I can backup my existing 
>data...

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