desktop Icons disappear

[Guest]

All of a sudden all my icons on my desktop have disappeared. I haven't
installed any software, and when I tried to send a icon to the desktop the
new icon would not appear on the desktop. I know if I reboot my computer
they will all come back up, I just would like to know how to bring them back
up incase this ever happens again. Thank you for your time and support.

Respectfully,

Aaron

 

[Galen]

In Aaron <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

All of a sudden all my icons on my desktop have disappeared. I
haven't installed any software, and when I tried to send a icon to
the desktop the new icon would not appear on the desktop. I know if
I reboot my computer they will all come back up, I just would like to
know how to bring them back up incase this ever happens again. Thank
you for your time and support.

Respectfully,

Aaron

Press CTRL + ALT + DEL and open the Task Manager
Click on the Processes tab
Look to see if there is an "explorer.exe" running - if so right click and
end process on it.
Click File > New Task (Run) > and type in "explorer.exe" without the quotes
and press enter.

In some cases you can rid this problem by running the desktop as a separate
process.

Explorer as a Separate Process :
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/tips/sep_explorer.html

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Drew Tognola]

Aaron,

It sounds like there's another problem causing explorer.exe to crash. While
it's easy to just place an explorer.exe shortcut to your quick launch bar,
click Start > Programs > Accessories, select Event Viewer and look for any
related errors that might be causing the crash.

Drew