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Anonymous   09-06-2004 at 07:13:28 AM

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Help! I was trying to install a downloaded program
(Walmart's digital music store), and when I rebooted, the
desktop came up completely empty. All that's there is the
photo I had for the background. Right clicking does
nothing, and the windows key does nothing. All I can do
is use ctrl-alt-del to bring up the task manager to select
programs to run. How can I get my desktop icons and the
bar at the bottom of the screen back? Thanks!

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Anonymous   09-06-2004 at 01:24:47 PM
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Hi,

Try System Restore. From the Task Manager, locate and run the rstrui.exe
file under C:\Windows\system32\Restore folder.

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"Kathy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Help! I was trying to install a downloaded program
> (Walmart's digital music store), and when I rebooted, the
> desktop came up completely empty. All that's there is the
> photo I had for the background. Right clicking does
> nothing, and the windows key does nothing. All I can do
> is use ctrl-alt-del to bring up the task manager to select
> programs to run. How can I get my desktop icons and the
> bar at the bottom of the screen back? Thanks!

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Mohan   09-06-2004 at 11:35:01 AM
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hi kathy,
apart from performing a system restore which is an excellent idea, pl check
whether this software is compatible with windows xp.
sometimes incompatible software can also crash the computer
good luck


"Kathy" wrote:

> Help! I was trying to install a downloaded program
> (Walmart's digital music store), and when I rebooted, the
> desktop came up completely empty. All that's there is the
> photo I had for the background. Right clicking does
> nothing, and the windows key does nothing. All I can do
> is use ctrl-alt-del to bring up the task manager to select
> programs to run. How can I get my desktop icons and the
> bar at the bottom of the screen back? Thanks!
>

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