re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' Monday, September 15, 2008 at 8:56 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Tech109 (1 messages posted) Awesome tip! Deleting the registry key, then running explorer.exe from Task Manager brought back the start menu, taskbar. Previously I was getting the same error as the original poster. This is on a customer's computer after she got a virus. FYI to others with this issue, you should be able to run just about anything from Task Manager, such as regedit, control panel applets, etc. On Saturday, January 13, 2007 at 3:25 am, Andy wrote: >Thanks for this great post Wilson. >I had exactly the same problem with a mate's laptop after a virus. >I had jumped through so many hoops but your fix pushed me in the right direction. >However to get mine to work, I simply deleted the key rather than rename the explorer >and it all sprang back into life >Thanks for your help, it's much appreciated > > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Andy: Saturday, January 13, 2007 at 3:25 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Steve: Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 10:09 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Gene: Fri, Jun 3, 2005, 6:39 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Critter: Fri, Jun 3, 2005, 8:09 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Gene: Tue, Jun 7, 2005, 1:35 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Wilson Chu: Mon, Jun 13, 2005, 5:53 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (David: Fri, May 5, 2006, 3:09 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Chris: Sat, Sep 16, 2006, 11:11 am) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Timu: Sun, Dec 2, 2007, 4:05 am) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Andy: Sat, Jan 13, 2007, 3:25 am) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Tech109: Mon, Sep 15, 2008, 8:56 am) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Steve: Thu, Oct 2, 2008, 10:09 am) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Yamil: Mon, Oct 20, 2008, 9:22 am) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (lupey: Tue, Jan 6, 2009, 6:28 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (odili: Fri, Oct 14, 2005, 5:48 am) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Melissa: Fri, Oct 14, 2005, 6:28 am) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (GreatFoolDad: Mon, Apr 24, 2006, 2:42 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