re: I have lost all icons and start menu functions
Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Peris
(1 messages posted)
I had the exact same problem and fixed it after opening firefox from task manager.
My exact problem came about after i played an mmo game that had a glitch and made
my pc freeze.
On the restart i saw that i ve lost all communication with my desktop.No icons, no
right click at the desktop,no windows toolbar and no start button.
By searching the forums i came about a solution.I thought that if this wont work
i will need to format and re-install windows.
The solution worked and after i rebooted everything went back to normal.I was a bit
hesitant on whether it will make the situation worse but it worked.
The solution to this is the following:
Bring up registry editor via the task manager (type regedit and Enter)
There are 2 registry keys in the registry that are causing the problem. It affects
the explorer.exe and iexplorer.exe files.
This are the keys that need to be deleted...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution
Options\explorer.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution
Options\iexplorer.exe
Once these keys are deleted the desktop and internet explorer should come back to
life.
To be honest i run a modified windows xp pro version and the iexplorer.exe was not
found cause i didnt install it in the first place, so i just deleted the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\explorer.exe
After i erased the folder looking icon in Image File Execution Options i rebooted
and everything got back to its normal state.I want to thank robbieart for providing
the solution (he also got it from someone else but thats how the net works eheheh)
It worked like a charm for me i hope it does the same for you.
On Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 3:52 pm, Derek wrote:
>I have lost all icons on my desktop and cannot access the start menu. I can run
>programs by hitting ctrl-alt-del and selecting the program through Task Manager,
>but cannot access anything through the desktop. Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
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