No Desktop

[pizza_sleek]

When I start up my computer all it displays is the background and the cursor. I have rebooted it heaps and still nothing. It won't display a desktop! When I press ctrl+alt+del it does not say i have explorer open! please help! i have a pentium 3 and windows me

 

[LadyLisa]

Try right clicking the Desktop then click on Active Desktop and then click Show Desktop Icons.

Hope this works.

 

[Bryan]

And if that doesn't work, try restoring a registry copy dated the first day you got the empty Desktop. Here's how to do a registry restore with Windows ME,

Power down the PC, insert the Windows ME Boot Diskette in the floppy drive and power on the PC. It should boot to a boot menu. Take the option for "Minimal Boot". Once you have an a:\> prompt type in the following command and press enter.

scanreg /restore

Now use the Up/Down Arrow keys to highlight the registry backup dated the day you first got the empty Desktop at startup and press enter to restore it.

Let us know what happens.

 

[deuce]

Do you mean the first day before the lost desktop? (last day of regular desktop) To me I would think restoring to the exact registry would have the same problem.