all my windows desktop icons and task bar dissapears ..
the only thing I can run is pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del and running task manager....
cant help myself when running in safe mode also.
cant restore to earlier check point...
is this some kind of virus or........
need help ASAP
how did u do it? I tryed to copy the explorer.exe from my desktop into a Cd and placed the dc into my laptpp but a messege box poped up and said that it didnt work
Hi yaso, I have the same problem and I'm trying to follow your advice but I can't delete the original explorer. A message comes up saying that it is being used by another program. how do I get around this please?
Thanks so much, this worked like a charm! I was racking my brain for hours trying to figure it out and I read this and it worked great, thanks so much again!
Be careful removing things from your startup list in msconfig. If you do not know what it is then don't remove it. I did this one time and my computer stopped responding and I had to reformat it.
I had the exact same problem. Here's what you do. Go to task manager, click open new task. Go to drive C:\WINDOWS and then find where it says explorer. All you have to do is open up explorer and everything returns to normal. It worked for me anyway.
I was going to do the paste thing but I solve the problem before I could get to that. I went to -New Task- and type in msconfig. This brings up -System Configuration Utility-. From there, you can do a -System Restore- and go back to an earlier time before you had the problem.
hello im using windows 10 64 bit...i am experiencing a similar problem. the start button is not working all the desktop icons are lost and the desktop itself is in active i have tried even to right click on it but it doesnt respond and whenever i open any folder window the window can only be on maximum or minimized on the task bar meaning i can not manage more the a single window..
hi all I found a nice solution :
1- alt +ctrl + del
new task write : explorer.exe
if it not work ok .
goto to the processes tab and find explorer.exe and press end process
and then go back new task then explorer.exe .
that's all
it works with me
just want to help.
thanks
I'm using windows 7 64-bit after I restarted my computer all my desktop icons were missing but the task bar was there and everything worked fine.I went to C:/Users/.../desktop/
the files from my desktop were still there but I just couldn't see them.
This is how I fixed it.Hope it will help someone
Go to desktop then press right mouse button , from the menu choose View --> Show Desktop icons
I don't know what changed it because I'm the only one who uses this computer.It worked for me however it wasn't a virus it was some program that changed this I'm certain of it.
hey man I liked what you have suggested but it's serious problem regarding companies....so are you sure that after creating new profile problem will solve?
Because I noticed this problem on my company's vise president's laptop, that's why this is serious, I was going to format system.
i'm also sure that he is having virus in system. But creating profile will be far better than formatting.
Reply as soon as possible, I mean really it's a solution, or have you tried it, because if this will not solve the problem then he will shout that why didn't I formatted as it will take time for once only.
Thank you....
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