re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 9:50 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Beth (1 messages posted) September, 2007 My boyfriend's computer is having the same problem--one day after deleting unused programs the desktop icons, taskbar etc. all disappeared leaving only the desktop image behind. We fixed it once using something downloaded from a website called "shellfix.zip" but after he turned the computer off and then on again later the problem reoccurred, but worse! Now, the icons, etc. flash on and off. To do anything (like try to copy files to a USB drive to save them) you have to hope it doesn't take more than 15 seconds. The Task Manager is accessible using Ctrl+Alt+Delete. He ran msconfig with no results Antivirus/spyware show nothing System Restore was turned off for some reason, so no luck there. Advanced Window Cleaner also did nothing. Safe Mode has the same problem, as do any other user accounts on this computer Running explorer.exe brings the desktop back for a flash, but then it disappears again Seems like a lot of people are having this problem, but I"ve yet to come across something that fixes it for us! Is there anything we haven't thought of yet? (Windows Repair Install turned out to be too advanced for our computer skills, so we decided not to run it) Thanks in advance for any suggestions Beth On Friday, June 8, 2007 at 9:42 am, Praveena wrote: > >I am getting the same problem. I have Windows XP. When i run explorer.exe from Task >Manager, i am able to see the icons and Taskbar. But it just for a second like a >flash. I couldn't figureout what's the problem is? If anybody knows the solution >to this problem, please let me know. Really Appreciate your help... > >Thanks.... > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Praveena: Friday, June 8, 2007 at 9:42 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] 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) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Thunderrun: Fri, Nov 9, 2007, 9:09 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