Lost taskbar along with all desktop icons!!!

[Baaka]

Hi all,

i have a big problem, i was helping my brother install google desktop and my computer shut down on me. When it restarted, my desktop came back with no taskbar nor any desktop icons!!!

i cant right click or anything, nothing loads, i can access teh task manager and launch applications from there.

Please help!!!

 

[Baaka]

it seems that i cant run explorer??? i can run firefox, but when i try to run explorer nothing is coming on!

 

[tasmanian]

Restart explorer should load.

 

[Baaka]

it does not reload when i reload. any other suggestions?

 

[Baaka]

but yes, explorer does not load at start up any longer, any suggestion on how to reload it.

Restarting does not work.

 

[bruceb]

Try this:

reboot in safe mode log into the adminstrator acount insert the xp cd (if you
using xp) click on run and type sfc /scannow and this should fix the problem