My desktop tabs seem to have disapeared and i have a new background that came along wiht a bunch of trojans. As far as I know i have gotten rid of the trojans. But my desktop tabs are gone. I have two options under desktop properties. i have tried several things with no luck of regaining them. Please help Paul

Sounds like a desktop hijacker(s) alright. What do you have for AV? I would download, update and run eset nod32 in Safe Mode.

It sounds like smitfraud but I couldn't be sure without an Hijack This log. What exactly have you done so, can you use the computer to get on line and what two items are in properties. If you can get online download http://noahdfear.geekstogo.com/smitRem.exe . Save the file to your desktop. Unzip smitRem.zip to extract the files it contains. Do not do anything with it yet. You will run the RunThis.bat file later in safe mode. Next download this cleanup tool http://www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/ A window will open and choose save, then desktop as the destination. On your Desktop, click on Cleanup40.exe icon. Then, click run and place a checkmark beside "I Agree" Then click next followed by start and ok. A window will appear with many choices, keep all the defaults as set when the slide bar to the left it is set to standard quality. Click ok DO NOT RUN IT YET Download this trail version of Ewido Security Suite(not the beta scan) http://www.ewido.net/en/download/ .Install ewido. During the installation, under "Additional Options" uncheck "Install background guard" and "Install scan via context menu". Launch ewido It will prompt you to update click the ok button and it will go to the main screen On the left side of the main screen click update Click on start and let it update. DO NOT run a scan yet. You will do that later in safe mode. Start the computer in Safe Mode 1. Open the smitRem folder, then double click the RunThis.bat file to start the tool. Follow the prompts on screen. Wait for the tool to complete and disk cleanup to finish. 2.Run Ewido. Click on scanner Click Complete System Scan and the scan will begin. During the scan it will prompt you to clean files, click OK When the scan is finished, look at the bottom of the screen and click the Save report button. Save the report to your desktop 3.Run the clean-up tool. 4.Go to Control Panel > Internet Options. Click on the Programs tab then click the "Reset Web Settings" button. Click apply then ok. 5.Next go to Control Panel > Display. Click on the "Desktop" tab then click the "Customize Desktop" button. Click on the "Web" tab. Under "Web Pages" you should see an entry checked called something like "Security info" or similar. If it is there, select that entry and click the "Delete" button. Click ok then apply and ok. 6.Restart back into Windows normally now. 7.Run this online scanner Panda 8. Your host file may be damaged. To repair it download http://www.funkytoad.com/download/hoster.zip.Unzip Hoster.zip Open Hoster.exe Then click on "Restore Original Hosts" Close program when complete. Empty Recycle Bin

Hey thanks, i did what you said and i have control of my desktop once again. Paul