My girlfriend runs her business from home and every thing is stored on her computer last night she right clicked on the desktop > arrange icons by > and then by mistake she clicked on lock web items on desktop. She now has no desktop I can't right click on the desktop any more to try and reverse what she has done. the system keeps crashing whenever I try to do anything and she manged to restore it back to an earlier date but its exactly the same. Her systems running XP home 1.8ghz processor with 756gb ram if this makes any difference.
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Jump to Posttry starting in safe mode and see what happens and if she has hijackthis then try and get a logfile up here. does she have ccleaner?
Jump to PostTry Start/Run
Enter desk.cpl
Open the Desktop Tab/Customize/Web
Uncheck the "Lock" box.
Jump to PostJust so you know, this is the key involved.... shown is the locked value [6]; setting value as [4] unlocks web items. You are unsetting bit 2 - if locked value is 2 you would set 0.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\Components]
"GeneralFlags"=dword:00000006..and hughv's method does just that - you …
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