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Windows explorer troubles?

Posted By : Nyree of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on April 25, 2004

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When I double click on windows explorer I loose all the icons on the desktop, windows explorer does not open and then after about 5 seconds the icons on the desk return. How can I get windows explorer back to normal?

This question was answered on April 25, 2004. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.


You can try this:

1 Right-click and delete current windows explorer icon on the Desktop.

2 Open c:\windows

3 Right-click explorer.exe and hold it and drag it to the desktop.

4 In the menu opened choose Create Shortcut.

See if that helped the problem

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Posted by Nyree of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on April 25, 2004

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