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by salihoune

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Hi everyone,

Here is my problem.My Windows2000 machine boots alright but nothing shows on the screen apart from the a wallpaper.The desktop items do not show.I have backed up my informations onto a different machine,formatted the hard disk and perform a clean installation.Two weeks later i had the same problem.

Please kindly help.Thanks

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by brianmann57

Look next to the "start" Button on the toolbar, is there a little desktop there?.....click on it, if that does not work, right click on the desktop and click on show icons. If that does not work, Ctrl-alt-del into the task manger and look down processes list for a SVChst.exr that shows as a local event (Logon name) if you see it, highlight and end the process, click through the warning and see if the icons come back. This is a program called Phantom that got onto your computer.

by cglrcng9

Download Iconoid.exe, install & run it, it will find all those lost desktop icons. Then keep it running to hide the icons neat lil toy that helps in other ways.

http://www.sillysot.com/download.htm

Have rec'd. to a few others that have used Tweak UI and lost the desktop Icons, it has always brought them back, in all reality they are usually there but hidden or cloaked.

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