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Disappearing icons, start menu

hutchins888, on Monday July 7, 2008 10:40:09 PM 
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Hello,toolbar, startup menu icons missing after starting i e 7 can't retrieve back to windows. Works fine in safe mode. Can you help? Please email.

Configuration: Windows Vista
Internet Explorer 7.0

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Itboy26, on Tuesday July 8, 2008 09:25:31 AM
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I think that you have got a virus on your pc

Please scan your pc on safe boot and try booting again ,if the problem continue make all backup on safe mode and then format your drive.



The virus has infected your system files.

   
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imadude, on Wednesday February 25, 2009 08:14:51 PM
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How do u get 2 safe mode on windows xp

   
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WizKid, on Monday May 25, 2009 02:03:28 PM

Push F9 or F10 and it will go to a screen saying run in normal or safe

   
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renjiomega, on Sunday September 14, 2008 09:15:13 PM
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I too have been recently havn problems with this and if this helps in any way i'm glad cuz i jus wanna help out others as i want to bre helped ....

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From time to time, Explorer (the application responsible for the taskbar, desktop, and Start Menu) will crash, and the taskbar and all your desktop icons will disappear. Now, there’s a built-in safeguard for this that relaunches Explorer automatically if such a crash is detected, but it doesn’t always work as it’s designed. For example, if you have a separate Windows Explorer window open and the Launch folder windows in a separate process option (in Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View tab) is enabled, and the taskbar disappears, Windows will mistakenly open another Windows Explorer window instead of reinstating your taskbar and desktop. Here's how to get your taskbar and desktop back:

Close all visible Windows Explorer windows. Other running applications can be left alone.

Press Ctrl-Alt-Del, and then click Task Manager.

In the Windows Task Manager application that appears, select New Task (Run) from the File menu.

Type Explorer and click Ok.

   
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alex, on Monday October 27, 2008 03:34:37 PM
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I ahve try alt +crt+ del but its telling me that by task manager has been disable by my administrater
what should i do

   
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Deep, on Wednesday November 19, 2008 08:15:04 AM
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Download RRT.EXE from google and run in safe mode ur problem is solve after.

   
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catlam, on Friday November 21, 2008 03:17:13 PM
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I have the same problem.. Last night my computer went blank.. now, all I can see on it is the wallpaper.. no icons, no start icon.. nothing. It looks like your advice is working well for others, so I would like to try it.... but I don't understand what it means to "download RRT.EXE from google".. Besides, I can't even get to google anyway. I can't do anything with my comp. I am using my comp at work right now. Please help. Thanks!

   
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ditto, on Tuesday March 17, 2009 01:36:04 PM
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When booting icons appear and quickly disappear and I am left with a blank wallpaper--no startup or anything. I cut it off and wait and reboot, but same thing happens over & over. It does not go to safemode. So, should I try f11 for a recovery?

   
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Micki12, on Sunday February 22, 2009 10:47:36 PM

I have the same problem as alex my computer says the adminstator is disabling the task manager what do i do...
o and im at the library looking this up so i can't acess the internet either
im connected just nothing is happening

   
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koanvista, on Friday November 7, 2008 06:16:19 AM
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Thnx so much for advice on restoring taskbar and start menu using task manager. i was so frustrated. your a champ.

   
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Fedrizzi, on Tuesday November 11, 2008 07:21:58 AM

This helped my problem too

I did not have my desktop or toolbar. I just got a Mac and I run VM fusion ware which is great. But when it updated windows xp service pack and rebooted the desktop and toolbar went missing.

I tried the above direction

c alt del

then run task

explorer

That it self did not work

then i went to tasks and shut down one of the explorers. Then it worked.
So if above does not work then try to shut down one of the task.

Thanks

   
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mooglepie, on Monday November 24, 2008 08:50:48 AM
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Nice that worked, thanks!!!

from time to time my laptop will just poweroff on its own. so i'll reboot the machine only to find, after the blue windows screen is displayed, that a blank screen shows up with only my cursor. what to do is this:

hit ctrl, alt delete. click processes tab and select any Explorer running. hit end task and yes to end process. once there's no more of those on the list, go to Tasks or Programs tab and hti the new task button. type Explorer, and hit okay. alternately you could browse to firefox.exe's location or iexplorer.exe if you want to access the internet for help (which amazingly, works without the taskbar or desktop behind it)

   
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exDiller, on Saturday December 6, 2008 03:45:39 PM

Mooglepie,

Sounds like your laptop may be overheating and shutting down to save the CPU. Could get expensive if this is the case and you fry your cpu. Unless you need a good reason to get a new one :-P

Make sure the fans on the bottom are not blocked!

Cheers,
D

   
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Gord.G, on Wednesday December 10, 2008 07:13:28 AM
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Hi,
Apparently i dont seem to be going anywhere with all the solutions. I can access my task manager even when booting from safe mode. What can i do.
Plz help

   
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watt, on Sunday April 19, 2009 04:37:59 PM

I am aggre with him .many time we faced and solve this problem
wattvolt

   
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mlf, on Monday December 8, 2008 08:00:26 PM

I was so mad and every one I called wanted $200 to fix it, But you are the best I did what you said.

hit ctrl, alt delete. click processes tab and select any Explorer running. hit end task and yes to end process.

As soon as I deleted one of them my computer was back. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!

   
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KT, on Saturday February 14, 2009 07:14:13 PM
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Perfect! Once I killed the old explorer.exe process and restarted explorer, i got all of them back. Thank you! That was a very annoying problem.

   
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nita, on Sunday January 25, 2009 02:36:31 AM

Hello,

may i ask how you went to tasks and shut down one of the explorers??

   
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nita, on Wednesday January 28, 2009 06:32:57 PM
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Hello fredrizzi,


may i ask how you went to tasks and shut down one of the explorers??

   
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Belle, on Tuesday November 25, 2008 12:19:50 PM

Yours helped. thank you so much.

   
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caligirl, on Thursday December 11, 2008 12:22:50 AM

Thanks so much renjiomega. I did exactly what you said and it worked perfectly.

   
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divyesh, on Tuesday December 23, 2008 03:35:34 AM
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Thanks lllllooooooooooooooot

   
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Redd8605, on Friday December 26, 2008 01:00:48 AM

Im having the same problem as everyone else how do I reformat my drive

   
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nick, on Wednesday January 14, 2009 02:45:11 PM

Grt man ,thanks , it really worked ...

   
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redpoy, on Friday January 16, 2009 05:27:32 PM

Please give your sources renjiomega :
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article07-006

   
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Vic, on Monday February 2, 2009 07:05:27 AM

Im having the same problem....

I ctrl>alt>delete,
New task, and I type "explorer"

The desktop icons come, but then a few seconds later, they go away again.

and it keeps doing that for a while...

it comes, and goes.... a few times...
then after a few times doing that...
it goes back to blank screen (just wall paper) and thats it.

I have tried everything.

the root thing, safe mode, any other ideas?!

   
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Relieved, on Monday February 9, 2009 02:37:07 AM

Thank you. Your fix for retrieving the start menu and the active icons bar worked for me.

   
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andy7772, on Monday February 16, 2009 07:04:47 PM

It worked! but guess what? it disappeared! it brought up everything that i wanted (my files and desktop stuff) but then, along with the rest off the stuff on my desktop, it disappeared! again!

   
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db, on Tuesday February 17, 2009 04:49:52 AM
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Hi, I have the same problem, I followed your instruction, it did work, I was able

to get my icons back when I type explorer.exe but when i restart my computer
my icons does not automatically display, i have to alt ctrl del togo to the task mgr

all the time to get my desktop icon back. is there a way to have this auto. like
it was before? thanks for any help.

david

   
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anonymous, on Thursday February 19, 2009 10:47:49 PM

Thank you so much i couldn't find out what was wrong

   
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munira, on Wednesday February 25, 2009 12:20:00 PM

I do not have any task manager on my windows after pressing ctrl alt delete what should i do to bring icons on my windows

   
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tc, on Saturday March 7, 2009 03:38:16 AM

Hi
i m having the same problem and i pressed ctrl-alt-del to solve it but my task manager is not visible can u help me for that
thankyou

   
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 Bengilo, on Friday June 26, 2009 12:37:49 AM

I've tried the ctrl alt del, but the task manager is not visible. Pls help.

   
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guest, on Wednesday March 18, 2009 05:23:25 PM

Followed your advice, many thanks ! my start menu and taskbar have retuned, again many thanx

   
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dankavan12, on Sunday April 12, 2009 12:42:27 AM

I did that but whenever I log on I have to to do is there a way to do it once anf or all.
Thanks a lot! :)

   
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Ronnie, on Monday April 20, 2009 04:38:00 PM

Thank You my lovely, it worked a treat! x

   
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VT, on Friday June 12, 2009 07:01:40 AM

Thanks dude keep doin wat u do ur awesome

   
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mara, on Monday June 15, 2009 06:22:30 AM

I was doing a search on Bing to find out how to solve this problem because my taskbar and windows start up is constantly disappearing when I restart the computer. Your advice here worked perfectly and I want to thank you for posting and sharing. Now I know what to do when I have the problem. Thank you so much.

Mara

   
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Stewrt, on Tuesday October 28, 2008 01:17:55 AM

I'Ve got the exact same thing, nasty lil bugger isn't it.

All the same symptoms you have, the crt/alt/del disabled. And having half of my start menu options disabled. Along with some popups and other things.

I did a scan in safe mode with AVG and Spybot S+D both found some things but it keeps coming back.


Ill post if I find a solution, but it doesn't look good.

Stu

   
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lee, on Friday October 31, 2008 10:06:48 AM

What oppirating system.

   
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stewrt, on Friday October 31, 2008 11:47:37 AM
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Win XP Home,


I backed up and reformatted yesterday. I knew which file the virus came in which was a big help.

Stu

   
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3lowout, on Friday December 12, 2008 10:47:11 PM

HEY!
well, i dont know if you fully know, but im going to just explain a littel more,
the virus is w3.silly (something like that) is just make high risks, saying lock you out your computer i.e. start bar ect not working, when i tryed to download my i.e was not working, i could not transfer files, to install and when i did get the file on the computer it dident let me install.... DAM... seems, broke now, i was like, FULL REBOOT?
then i see my files and i dident want to get rid of them so i did this...
after some time on working the problem seem's easy now tho...
do this...
Ctrl+Alt+Del.
Start Task Manager.
click "FILE" on task manager..
Then NEW TASK.
In the box Type "explorer.exe" then wait 30 sec's if that..
theirs you task bar before next robot,
so you still can not install to get rid of the virus...
i had "norton 360" and face it thats WACK softwere...
so im sure you AV will show up this virus, when you load it now, do a FULL scan not a quick one.
it should pick it up..
then reboot your system. (on and off)
most stuff still wont work after it gone? think it still their nope, it turned all your windows exe off...
go..
START.
Control Panel\
System and Maintenance\
Administrative Tools\
system configuration.
--
then click start up tab on system configuration
then click enable all, go out it will say reboot system.
you made need to do it 4 times max to get it all working, i did it two times and it working PERFECT!
This is ONLY for windows VISTA!
thanks for your time reading, and i hope it helped...

3lowout,

   
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Nath, on Sunday January 25, 2009 09:13:32 PM

Thx guys the cntrl alt delete then task manager then new task explorer works fine but i hvae problem i have to do it evrytime i start the laptop up is there any way to stop this ?
thank you=]

   
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Jesse, on Wednesday January 28, 2009 12:01:04 AM

THANK YOU SOO MUCH you fixed my problem!!!!!!! thank you!!!

   
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max, on Saturday January 31, 2009 05:33:47 PM

Do you think you could download like windows vista to fix thi problem... or, i mean i dont want to like system restore, because i have to many important files...
and im running Nortopn Symantec, and Windows Onecare picking up countless viruses... but every time i try to run the "explorer" thing in new task i get this "windows cannot find 'Explorer'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.

   
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Carmen, on Tuesday February 3, 2009 01:37:20 AM

I did wat u guys told me but everytime i type in explorer, it saids it cant find it. I also went to processed and did all that stuff but it still wont work D: HELP MEEEE IM GOING INSANE!

   
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DJ, on Saturday February 7, 2009 05:34:59 PM

We are having the same problem and have tried every solution posted

problem: no task bar, no icons
Tried:
1. task manager - turning off all other explorers (there are none showing up)
2. task manager, new task, explorer.exe, ok - shows "windows explorer has encountered an error and needs to close"

HELP?!

   
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Brandon Shipman, on Sunday February 8, 2009 12:21:08 AM

The
Ctrl=Alt=Delete thing WORKED.
You push ctrl+alt+delete and got to Task manager.
Then got to new task.
Then type in EXPLORER>I did it in CAPS,u try this,it should work

   
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K, on Sunday February 8, 2009 04:07:53 AM

Apparently, typing in Explorer only works for like a few minutes. My task bar keeps disappearing. It doesn't seem right to have to do it that often.

Has anyone else had this problem? Any solutions? Get my computer fixed at a shop maybe?

Thanks.

   
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Paul, on Sunday February 15, 2009 11:19:19 PM
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Ahhh, a new development:

I am having the same problems, but nothing happens when I press "ctrl + alt + del"

thoughts?

   
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tee, on Sunday February 22, 2009 11:54:40 PM

I have same problem i get the box but when i click task manager box disappears and i have
my wallpaper screen so it is impossible to start / end explorer or anything else
what did u do>to fix? thanks

   
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Julieee :D, on Wednesday March 18, 2009 03:15:16 PM

Well did it but when i type in
"EXPLORER" this thing called
"Data Execution Program" or
something like that pops up
&& it says that it has blocked it
and that i have to go to my
control panel to unblock it but
my start menu is gone so I
dont know what to do! and well
i tried the keyboard shortcut
but it still dosent work so yeah i
need help

   
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susan, on Monday February 16, 2009 10:24:39 AM

Hi sir
i have got a problem that there are no icons start menu on desktop. i can reforum my computer

   
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Brian, on Monday February 16, 2009 06:02:32 PM

Ive recently had this problem, if ur task manager says its blocked by admin, click start,


REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Syst­em /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

   
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bryan1242, on Monday February 23, 2009 08:29:53 PM

Hi everyone!
i've had this for too long and i really want to get rid of it i dont use internet explorer anymore i deleted it before i had this problem and now i currently am using mozilla firefox. when ever i try to do a full scan of my computer with my anti virus program trend micro pc cillin it says "please wait for this to finish loading" i have tried system restore and that did nothing. i have literally done everything this is my last resort. i am clueless please help!!!

   
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tee, on Tuesday February 24, 2009 01:21:28 AM

I cant get task manager to open
i have wall paper and get log in screen i log in and get the wallpaper no icons no start
then i do alt cntl del and get the box when i click task manager the screen goes away
does not open tasks
before this happened i had many explorer errors
from reading posts i know if i cn get into task mgr i can del or start explore.exe and
iexplore.e xe cntl shift exc no good either
i know all icons still there i need more scanning ihave spywaredetector but last scan
befor all this i used aol's anti virus and one of the things i had option to delete was
"Memory" anyway any ideas how i can get into system
i am looking recovery console but afraid to do it because i cant aford to
reformat cant lose file help and thanks

   
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SWEETGIRL, on Monday March 2, 2009 03:04:48 PM

Hi,

da whole ctrl-alt-del thing works

task manager cums up but wen i type explorer it says da name isnt recognised!!!1:(

wat do i do?????????

help!!!!!!!!!

any1?

   
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noooooooooooooo, on Friday March 13, 2009 07:10:36 PM

Yes the same happens to me

i really need help

what shall i do

if i get it up it sais "this application has failed to start because iertutil.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

but how do i do this i dont know what to do

HEEEEEEEEEEELP PLZ :(:(:(:(

   
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Carmen, on Wednesday February 25, 2009 08:17:56 PM

I ended up bringing it to a shop =.=

   
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gah, on Thursday March 19, 2009 03:31:38 AM

Hey, my start menu and icons wont appear, ive tried system restore (through task manager) but the next button in that wont respond, Ive tried unplugging the battery, but nothing happened, i've also tried this run windows explorer trick, but it opens the start menu for less than a second then closes it again.... any tips would be useful

   
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maxine gilbert, on Saturday March 28, 2009 08:04:39 PM

MY START MENU ICONS HAVE DISAPEARED

   
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Cait, on Sunday April 5, 2009 08:46:07 PM

Ok, my laptop froze earlier this morning so I ctrl alt del and hit log off (I didn't remember which to pick) and the computer turned off. I turned it back on, and when I did the wall paper came up. Just the wall paper; no icons, no start menu, no anything. So I tried ctrl alt del again, and nothing happened. The computer didn't restart, shutdown, or give any options whatsoever. I let the battery run out and tried to turn it on again, and it did turn on, but once again, just the wall paper. Tried ctrl alt del again and no success, I really don't know how to fix it, anyone have any ideas?

   
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FluxFire, on Tuesday April 21, 2009 05:06:50 PM
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My task bar and icons gone and for some reason and explorer.exe doesn't work... not to mention my internet doesn't work on my computer, but works for my mother's..... What should i do? It doesn't work in processes if that helps in anyway.....

   
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