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re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes'
Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 9:49 am
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Posted by R Broomfield (2 messages posted)

I've had similar problems with explorer in XP. I upgraded recently from Windows 98 to XP Home, and found I couldn't use Windows Explorer. Each time I tried to access any of the folders of the hard drives in the left hand pane of Explorer, it stalls, making the taskbar and desktop icons momentarily disappear. I can look at the 'My Documents' folder, but looking at anything else the screen disappears to a blank desktop. The icons and menu bar then refresh, without Explorer open. I spent over an hour on the phone with a Microsoft technician, who said they hadn't come across the problem before. He took me through a partial reinstallation 'repair' of XP, but the problem remained. He couldn't offer any explanation, so I had to uninstall XP back to Windows 98. My system: Epox KTA3+ Athlon 1.4GHz 2 hard drives (non RAID): IBM 40Gb 7200, partitioned into C: E: F: and G: Maxtor 18Gb 5400, D: 100Mb Zip drive accessed from Promise Ultra100TX2 IDE Controller (used for backup) STB 16Mb video card NETGEAR FA310TX PCI Ethernet Adapter

On Saturday, April 13, 2002 at 10:28 pm, mt wrote:
>After hours of searching on the Web this is the only thread that approximates the
>problem I'm having. Suddenly I have no desktop or taskbar. Like someone else, I also
>find that:
>
>1. Folder Options will NOT work from the icon in control panel, but will work from
>the tools menu.
>Tried:
>1. Searching for taskbar on all edges of screen.
>2. Ctrl Esc. (doesn't work)
>3. Windows key (doesn't work)
>
>And after repeated tries to run explorer, as recommended, I get only the MyDocuments
>folder but no desktop or taskbar.
>
>Any help greatly appreciated.

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (mt: Saturday, April 13, 2002 at 10:28 pm)

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re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Grey Allen: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 5:56 pm)

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Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Mark: Fri, Feb 8, 2002, 2:54 pm)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (idlehands: Fri, Feb 8, 2002, 5:34 pm)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (mt: Sat, Apr 13, 2002, 10:28 pm)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (R Broomfield: Sat, May 11, 2002, 9:49 am)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Grey Allen: Wed, May 25, 2005, 5:56 pm)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (dwitter: Fri, Aug 19, 2005, 1:13 pm)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Jom: Sun, Aug 28, 2005, 8:01 pm)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Mitch: Tue, Aug 30, 2005, 6:04 pm)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Jordi Masana: Tue, Oct 4, 2005, 9:41 am)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Donata: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 9:14 am)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Kathy Hoff: Mon, Nov 7, 2005, 11:00 am)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (peter warren: Mon, Nov 14, 2005, 7:13 pm)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (peter warren: Mon, Nov 14, 2005, 7:47 pm)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Daniel: Sat, Dec 10, 2005, 7:14 am)

No taskbar but windows key and icons work (Mandy: Sat, Mar 4, 2006, 10:51 am)

re: No taskbar but windows key and icons work (Xisle: Wed, Aug 23, 2006, 4:28 pm)

re: No taskbar but windows key and icons work (Lisa: Sat, Aug 26, 2006, 1:23 pm)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Praveena: Fri, Jun 8, 2007, 9:42 am)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Beth: Thu, Sep 20, 2007, 9:50 pm)

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