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Old 12-23-2008, 12:09 PM   #1 (permalink)
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desktop screen but no icons please help

hello on my toshiba on boot up it asks for my passwords loads and the desktop screen comes up but with no icons ,does anyone no how i can get them back so i can use the thing
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Old 12-23-2008, 03:56 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: desktop screen but no icons please help

and i have no task bar along the bottom
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Old 12-23-2008, 04:12 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: desktop screen but no icons please help

Press ctrl, alt del at the same time, choose taskmanager, click file, new task, type explorer.exe
When did this begin happening?
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Re: desktop screen but no icons please help

thanks for the reply
i shut the laptop down for a couple of hours and turned it back on and it asked for password and loaded but with out icons or taskbar
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