Desktop problems..I nedd help!!!

[PCOR]

I have a very annoying problem.
Every once in a while all my desktop icons disappear....for no apparent
reason.
To bring them back I have to right click the toolbar(bottom) and select SHOW
DESKTOP. Then all the icons show up again BUT as soon as I click on ANY icon
to run
a program, the program runs BUT all the icons disappear again.
I have resorted to restore point to clear this problem but I wonder if
anyone know why this happens and how to clear this situation other that
using the restore point
Ihave posted this problem onother site and have received some inputs but
none relly cleared the problem

I would appreciate any help
Thanks

 

[CWatters]

I have a very annoying problem.
Every once in a while all my desktop icons disappear....for no apparent
reason.

Do you have Active Desktop ...
http://www.oktec.com/desktop/active_desktop_page.htm

then perhaps...
http://www.oktec.com/desktop/#hideicons

 

[PCOR]

NO. I do not have either of these programs
Thansk...any other ideas?

 

[CWatters]

NO. I do not have either of these programs
Thansk...any other ideas?

Could just be Explorer crashing perhaps but it usually reboots itself.

Try looking in the event logs using the Event Viewer to see if there are any
errors there. There might be lots - in which case you need to work out which
is the first error and which are secondary errors. The way I normally
suggest...

Boot up and note the exact time (eg from the clock on the taskbar)
Then provoke the problem.
Reboot in safe mode.
Run the Event viewer and look for the first error in the logs after the time
noted (eg not the first error in the log because that might relate to a
problem you had last year or something).
Double click on the error message and use the button provided to copy the
error to the clip board. Then you can post it here.

Sorry if you already know how to suck eggs.

 

[bliss]

Sorry if you already know how to suck eggs.

i dont even know you cwWATTERY,
but already i dont like you.

 

[CWatters]

i dont even know you cwWATTERY,
but already i dont like you.

I guess you never heard the expression "To teach one's grandmother to suck
eggs"?....

DEFINITION: "To teach one's grandmother to suck eggs" - To offer needless
assistance; to waste one's efforts upon futile matters; especially, to offer
advice to an expert. This particular expression is well over two hundred
years old; it is just a variation of an older theme that was absurd enough
to appeal to the popular fancy. One of the earliest of these is given in
Udall's translation of 'Apophthegmes (1542) from the works of Erasmus."