desktop has no icons buttons or taskbar. now what?

J

John Dalberg

Sometimes I have to kill file explorer and when this happens, I lose the
desktop. The screen refreshes and all I get is an empty desktop. No
buttons, shortcuts or taskbar. I can't do anything.

How do I restore it? I think there's a keyboard shortcut to the command
prompt. What is it?

TIA

John Dalberg
 
C

Colon Terminus

Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up Windows Security dialog.
Click Task Manager button.
Click File Menu
Click "New Task (Run)"
Type explorer.exe
Click "OK"
 
M

Martin

CTRL - ALT - DEL -> Task Manager -> File -> New Task : explorer.exe ...

Tchuss,
Martin
 

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