re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear Saturday, August 27, 2005 at 3:17 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by J0HN (6 messages posted) I think in your case a solution has already been presented here ... http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1119994070 Possibly but probably unrelated ... MS has AntiSpyWare beta out now ... http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx On Saturday, August 27, 2005 at 1:00 pm, Richard wrote: >Hey guys. My friend is experiencing the same problem too. He was just playing some >games then the desktop icons and the taskbar is totally gone. Even if you reset the >computer, nothing happens. The only thing you will see is the wallpaper and nothing >more. Anybody can help me trouble shoot this kind of problem? Is there a possiblity >that the virus disabled/deleted one system file? > >And by the way, I have read one thread here about the norton anti-virus. Take note >that norton is not a very good anti-virus. It is just good in marketing. You can >compare the Norton Antivirus with the Trendmicro Pccillin Antivirus. Pccillin updates >for about 3 times everyday while Norton Antivirus only updates barely once everyday. >You would be lucky if Norton will update its database for it's known viruses everyday. Written in response to: re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (Richard: Saturday, August 27, 2005 at 1:00 pm) Responses to this message: re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (James: Monday, August 29, 2005 at 3:36 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Rich Green: Wed, Jun 25, 2003, 4:19 am) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Gary: Tue, Jan 13, 2004, 11:15 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Jerry Wendle: Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 10:48 am) Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (J0HN: Thu, May 19, 2005, 9:28 pm) re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (Ali: Tue, Jun 28, 2005, 2:37 am) re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (J0HN: Tue, Jun 28, 2005, 2:44 am) re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (Ali: Tue, Jun 28, 2005, 2:27 pm) re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (J0HN: Tue, Jun 28, 2005, 4:01 pm) re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (Ali: Wed, Jun 29, 2005, 12:37 am) re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (J0HN: Wed, Jun 29, 2005, 12:44 am) re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (Craig Ayliffe: Sat, Jul 8, 2006, 1:48 pm) re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (Du_Kine: Tue, Nov 22, 2005, 7:36 pm) re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (J0HN: Tue, Nov 22, 2005, 7:44 pm) re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (Louise Nash: Sat, Aug 13, 2005, 6:43 am) re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (Richard: Sat, Aug 27, 2005, 1:00 pm) re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (J0HN: Sat, Aug 27, 2005, 3:17 pm) re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (James: Mon, Aug 29, 2005, 3:36 am) re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (anna lee: Mon, Apr 3, 2006, 7:08 pm) re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (Falcon: Tue, Jun 28, 2005, 7:37 am) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (P Zeller: Sat, Nov 5, 2005, 11:09 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Michael Abrahamsen: Tue, Nov 8, 2005, 7:17 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (jimtomas: Wed, Nov 9, 2005, 1:28 am) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Ray Paulson: Thu, Jan 5, 2006, 10:01 am) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (bupaje: Sun, Jan 8, 2006, 5:07 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (GundamMon: Thu, Jan 26, 2006, 3:48 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Ron Galason: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 6:21 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Jack: Mon, Oct 29, 2007, 4:13 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (rj: Sat, Nov 3, 2007, 12:13 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Marion: Wed, Nov 21, 2007, 8:28 am) 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 XP Discussion Forum