I have just started up my laptop, windows starts and then all I get is a
blank desktop with no icons just the wallpaper. What can I do to solve the
problem?

try pressing ctl+al+del

then launch a new task
called:

explorer.exe

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"johnboytee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have just started up my laptop, windows starts and then all I get is a
> blank desktop with no icons just the wallpaper. What can I do to solve the
> problem?

I had this happened to me on a laptop running vista. It turns out that
one laptop power setting would turn off everything on desktop.
Choosing the regular or performance turns it back on. I don't have the
laptop to check the exact program for this. It should be in one of the
control panels.

johnboytee wrote:
> I have just started up my laptop, windows starts and then all I get
> is a blank desktop with no icons just the wallpaper. What can I do to
> solve the problem?
>

Right click a blank area of the desktop and place a check
next to "Show Desktop Icons" in the drop-down menu.

ctowers wrote:

> johnboytee wrote:
>> I have just started up my laptop, windows starts and then all I get
>> is a blank desktop with no icons just the wallpaper. What can I do to
>> solve the problem?
>>
>
> Right click a blank area of the desktop and place a check
> next to "Show Desktop Icons" in the drop-down menu.

23 hours later with the same answer.

VanguardLH wrote:
> ctowers wrote:
>
>> johnboytee wrote:
>>> I have just started up my laptop, windows starts and then all I get
>>> is a blank desktop with no icons just the wallpaper. What can I do
>>> to solve the problem?
>>>
>>
>> Right click a blank area of the desktop and place a check
>> next to "Show Desktop Icons" in the drop-down menu.
>
> 23 hours later with the same answer.
>
Shows how good it was.