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April 5th 07, 01:30 PM
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Desktop Icons dissapear!
Help! On occasions, after I shut down a window or program or even the first
start up pop-up menu in Vista....all of a sudden all the icons dissapear! All that is left is the background and the clock on the upper right hand side. The pointing arrow is still there and you can move it, but there is nothing to click on! You have to logoff and then log back on to get the icons back. It has happened to both my wife and I (we log on under seperate users). It does not happen all the time, but it does happen about 25% of the time when we use our laptop (brand new Dell laptop). 
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April 5th 07, 07:03 PM
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Desktop Icons dissapear!
Does the taskbar disappear as well? If so, that sounds like the shell
instance of Explorer crashing. If so, check your event logs for error numbers, -- Good Luck, Keith Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User] "James" wrote in message ... Help! On occasions, after I shut down a window or program or even the first start up pop-up menu in Vista....all of a sudden all the icons dissapear! All that is left is the background and the clock on the upper right hand side. The pointing arrow is still there and you can move it, but there is nothing to click on! You have to logoff and then log back on to get the icons back. It has happened to both my wife and I (we log on under seperate users). It does not happen all the time, but it does happen about 25% of the time when we use our laptop (brand new Dell laptop).
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April 5th 07, 07:42 PM
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Desktop Icons dissapear!
Yes, even the taskbar disappears. Even when you hit the "windows" key on the
keyboard, nothing pops up. I'll check to see if there is anything in the event log for error numbers. "Keith Miller MVP" wrote: Does the taskbar disappear as well? If so, that sounds like the shell instance of Explorer crashing. If so, check your event logs for error numbers, -- Good Luck, Keith Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User] "James" wrote in message ... Help! On occasions, after I shut down a window or program or even the first start up pop-up menu in Vista....all of a sudden all the icons dissapear! All that is left is the background and the clock on the upper right hand side. The pointing arrow is still there and you can move it, but there is nothing to click on! You have to logoff and then log back on to get the icons back. It has happened to both my wife and I (we log on under seperate users). It does not happen all the time, but it does happen about 25% of the time when we use our laptop (brand new Dell laptop).
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April 5th 07, 07:57 PM
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Desktop Icons dissapear!
See if it is crashed in memory. As if chooses to crash, or Windows decides
to terminate it (cause it generated a fatal exceotion) then Windows will restart Explorer. If it is 1/2 crashing this may explain why it doesn't automatically restart. "James" wrote in message ... Yes, even the taskbar disappears. Even when you hit the "windows" key on the keyboard, nothing pops up. I'll check to see if there is anything in the event log for error numbers. "Keith Miller MVP" wrote: Does the taskbar disappear as well? If so, that sounds like the shell instance of Explorer crashing. If so, check your event logs for error numbers, -- Good Luck, Keith Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User] "James" wrote in message ... Help! On occasions, after I shut down a window or program or even the first start up pop-up menu in Vista....all of a sudden all the icons dissapear! All that is left is the background and the clock on the upper right hand side. The pointing arrow is still there and you can move it, but there is nothing to click on! You have to logoff and then log back on to get the icons back. It has happened to both my wife and I (we log on under seperate users). It does not happen all the time, but it does happen about 25% of the time when we use our laptop (brand new Dell laptop).
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May 15th 07, 10:01 PM
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Desktop Icons dissapear!
"James" wrote: Help! On occasions, after I shut down a window or program or even the first start up pop-up menu in Vista....all of a sudden all the icons dissapear! All that is left is the background and the clock on the upper right hand side. The pointing arrow is still there and you can move it, but there is nothing to click on! You have to logoff and then log back on to get the icons back. It has happened to both my wife and I (we log on under seperate users). It does not happen all the time, but it does happen about 25% of the time when we use our laptop (brand new Dell laptop).
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February 25th 08, 03:12 PM
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Desktop Icons dissapear!
I am having the similar issue right now but the windows disappears and sometimes would return but everytime I open up a "My Documents" for example everything disspears. -- Vistaneedhelpman Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
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February 25th 08, 03:36 PM
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Desktop Icons dissapear!
Launch an elevated CMD window, ie Right click, Run as Administrator...
Shutdown Explorer Process from the Task Manager In the CMD window go to C:\Users\ProfileName\AppData\Local Do the following command: attrib -H IconCache.db Do the following command: del IconCache.db Do the following command: start explorer This should rebuild the Icon Cache credit to oKean -- Was this helpful? Then click the "Yes" Ratings button. Voting helps the web interface. http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales....htm#RateAPost Mark L. Ferguson .. "Vistaneedhelpman" wrote in message ... I am having the similar issue right now but the windows disappears and sometimes would return but everytime I open up a "My Documents" for example everything disspears. -- Vistaneedhelpman Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
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February 25th 08, 06:05 PM
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Desktop Icons dissapear!
Could not do it or its either I am doing it wrong it already comes up in the CMD as my C:\document and setting\username but im not sure how to proceed from there. I tried typing in attrib -H IconCache.db but then it said "file not found". -- Vistaneedhelpman Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
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June 6th 08, 02:24 AM
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Desktop Icons dissapear!
I had this same problem I believe. When you try to open any window, 10 seconds later you lose your desktop, taskbar, icons and all that. Nothing but a relog or restart will return them. This is a Trojan causing this mate. Download a program called SuperAntiSpyware and scan/delete. http://www.superantispyware.com/down...NTISPYWAREFREE Solved my problem at least... good luck. -- AdAbsurdum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AdAbsurdum's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=51087 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=719972 http://forums.techarena.in
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