Hi folks, my desktop icons have diasppeared and i have tried every trick on the book including tweakui to repair the icons no success please help. have tried to sefe boot nothing helps.
abetse 0 Newbie Poster
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Jump to PostMight I make a suggestion:
Open up Notepad. Copy and paste this into it:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ActiveDesktop] "NoChangingWallpaper"=dword:00000000 "NoComponents"=dword:00000001 "NoAddingComponents"=dword:00000001 "NoDeletingComponents"=dword:00000000 "NoEditingComponents"=dword:00000000 "NoHTMLWallPaper"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=dword:00000000 "NoActiveDesktop"=dword:00000001 "ClassicShell"=dword:00000000 "ForceActiveDesktopOn"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System] "DisableRegistryTools"=dword:00000000 "NoDispAppearancePage"=dword:00000000 "DisableTaskMgr"=dword:00000000
Then, go to Save As... Under file type, click All (*.*) (not *.txt), …
Jump to Postmaybe a victim of the accidental execution of a "windows desktop cleanup wizard"?
what do you think sani? its been a while since i've been around so im a bit behind..
just a thought,
Cain
Jump to PostHi abetse,
I had half of your problem, i.e., I lost my taskbar. Couldn´t fix it no matter what I tried. Finally, I found this fix and it worked:
http://home.earthlink.net/~leetutor/FixWin/DeskTask/misstbar.htm
It´s only been a little while since I got my taskbar back so I …
Jump to PostThanks zeroth, that did it for me and I've been trying for days to fix this problem
Jump to Postyou are welcome, it´s still working for me...
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meksikatsi commented: amazing fix for a bad problem, thanks +1
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meksikatsi commented: many thanks! +1
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