Windows Desktop Icons Not Appearing

aj9648

Hi

I have a real problem. Whenever I log in to my laptop the desktop icons do not appear. The wallpaper does but no icons or taskbar. I have to run taskmanager (ctrl/alt/del) and log off and then log on again to see the icons

Anyone know what the problem maybe? I have ran AVG scanner and not found any problems there.

Thanks

AirCooledHeaven

aj9648 wrote: »

Hi

I have a real problem. Whenever I log in to my laptop the desktop icons do not appear. The wallpaper does but no icons or taskbar. I have to run taskmanager (ctrl/alt/del) and log off and then log on again to see the icons

Anyone know what the problem maybe? I have ran AVG scanner and not found any problems there.

Thanks

Do you recall exactly when this started happening? If so you should do a system restore to the day before the problem started:

Start>Accessories>System Tools>System Restore

culpepper

sounds like explorer.exe is not running I know thats not hugely helpful unless you have some program with which that you have inadvertantly managed to disable it at start up.

aj9648

culpepper wrote: »

sounds like explorer.exe is not running I know thats not hugely helpful unless you have some program with which that you have inadvertantly managed to disable it at start up.

yes I think this has something to do with it....when I log off it says to me that explorer.exe is still running and it shuts down that process (if that makes any sense to you)

Any idea of fix?

aj9648

Sorted it

Ran CCleaner and cleaned registry and that did trick