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re: no icons on desktop
Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 11:24 am
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Posted by Ricer46 (23824 messages posted)


Have you tried booting in Safe Mode, or Last Known Good Configuration?






On Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 9:59 am, Ed Hussey wrote:
>I have no icons, no start button and no task bars on the desktop. I can find some
>programs by going through the task manager. I do not know what my grandson did to
>create the problem so I do not know where to start looking to correct the problem.
>simple solution, I think is system restore, but can not find it with task manager.
>Would appreciate any suggestions
>tks, Ed
>The message below was part of original and I can not find it in edit to remove, please
>disregard
>
>

Nothing on screen to allow me to do anything, only way into computer is through
>task manager (cont-alt-delete). This will allow me access to some programs but I
>can not get to system restore points which I think will correct the problem.




Written in response to:
no icons on desktop (Ed Hussey: Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 9:59 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: no icons on desktop (Ed Hussey: Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 11:54 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-no icons on desktop (Ed Hussey: Sat, May 9, 2009, 9:59 am)
*re: no icons on desktop (Steve: Sat, May 9, 2009, 11:24 am)
-re: no icons on desktop (Ricer46: Sat, May 9, 2009, 11:24 am)
-re: no icons on desktop (Ed Hussey: Sat, May 9, 2009, 11:54 am)
*re: no icons on desktop (Ricer46: Sat, May 9, 2009, 6:48 pm)
-re: no icons on desktop (Forever: Sat, May 9, 2009, 12:07 pm)
-re: no icons on desktop (Ed Hussey: Sat, May 9, 2009, 6:03 pm)
-re: no icons on desktop (Forever: Sun, May 10, 2009, 12:13 am)
-re: no icons on desktop (Ed Hussey: Sun, May 10, 2009, 7:18 am)
-re: no icons on desktop (Forever: Sun, May 10, 2009, 7:30 am)
*re: no icons on desktop (Forever: Sun, May 10, 2009, 7:34 am)
*re: no icons on desktop (Ed Hussey: Sun, May 10, 2009, 11:19 am)
*re: no icons on desktop (William: Sun, May 10, 2009, 4:21 am)
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