re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 8:28 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Marion (1 messages posted) I have recently had the same thing happen to me. My desktop and start bar disappear and I have to use Ctrl+Alt+Delete in order to initiate the task list and run programs. I have noticed that the icons and menu will reappear when I run 'Control' and am using the Control Panel to try to adjust features. I have tried launching Explorer and it only brings up the desktop briefly. I thought it might be my Video Driver and Uninstalled and Reinstalled the driver with no results. I created another User Account, in case my account had become corrupt but that desktop is also blank. I started my computer in Safe Mode (the desktop was still blank in Safe Mode) and ran multiple Spyware / Adware / Malware / Virus scan programs and registry cleaners (AdAware, AVG, SpyWare Doctor, CCleaner, Registry Mechanic, Advanced WindowsCare Personal, Ewido...) none of which found anything of significance. I attempted to use the restore feature to return to prior versions (a few days ago, a week ago, a month ago...) but after running the process received a message that no changes were made. I used sfc /scannow to ensure that my Windows files are OK. I have gone into msconfig to turn off all startup items that might be causing this problem and copied and pasted a fresh copy of Explorer into the C:\Windows folder in case it was corrupt. None of this troubleshooting is making a difference and I really do not want to have to resort to a full reinstall of Windows. I have Norton installed and think that this might be part of the problem as the Processes list appears to have some Norton related files starting and quickly stopping again; however, I cannot uninstall Norton using the regular install/unistall because it does not appear in the list of programs. I was wondering if anyone has actually found a solution to this problem that might work in my situation. Thanks! Written in response to: re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (rj: Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 12:13 pm) 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' (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