It is an HP laptop. When started up and logged onto windows the taskbar and icons do not appear. Almost all files and applications in windows are excessible by going through the Task Manager. Has ANYBODY seen this before? Is there a way to fix it without having to RESET the entire system?Windows XP:

Press Control/Alt/Del to get to the Task Manager. Click on "New Task..." and type in "explorer" without quotes.If above remedy does not SOLVE your problem, you can do System Restore with the HELP of Task Manager. File> New Task (Run) > %SystemRoot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

This will help you to restore your system to previous state when it was ok.

Vishnu Thakor

hi,

right click on the desktop, go to arrange by icons, then click show desktop icons...


i have had this problem too and of course i did the task manager thing and start explorer.exe

but then why does this even happen.Try this press ctrl+alt+del and open explorer.exe it should show everything. Or on the other hand try this:
irst Backup your registry..........

Start >> Run >> regedit /e c:\registrybackup.reg

Now ...

Start >. Run >> regedit >> navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\TaskManager

Now Delete Taskmanager

Restart Windows