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by mdhislam

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Hello
My W2k adv server's desktop is empty. No icon can be placed there. If I right click on desktop nothing happen. No properties. It looks like locked. Can anyone help me? I looked at the users desktop folder through win explorer and found icons are there bit not showing in the windows desktop.
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MD

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by rickrbyrne

Hi

Try This,

Go the control panel, select display properties, select the web tab. You will see a check box in show web content on my active desktop. Make sure there is no Check Mark in this box, if there is remove and select apply. This should take care of your problem.

Rick

by w2ktechman

I would guess that explorer.exe stopped. Try ctrl -- alt -- del -- task manager. On the first tab select new, type explorer.exe, press

by borg7of9

I had the same problem on Win2000 desktop. FOr me my explorer.exe files was corrupted, so I copied the file from another system, and all icons came back.

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