i have recently installed this program which frees up memory. it disables many things such as my destop. i decided it was crap so i uninstalled it but my destop is till missing. They are no icons and i cant right click on it. can someone help me restore it?

Try booting to safe mode (F8 on bootup). In safe mode select command prompt only, then type scanreg/restore and hit enter. Then select a good registry backup file that predates the installation of that program.

I hope registry restore does the trick (I have no other neat ideas on this). Sadly, "memory free up programs" are pointless (although it is unusal for them to wreck the system). When they release the memory you end up with an over active CPU paging virtual memory instead, so you gain nothing. Free memory is a misnomer, a bit like driving at 30 mph in case you ever want to do 70 mph. If memory is fully utilised then this will give you max speed. W98 will release memory when required (usually). If it doesn't then reboot is the best option. When memory doesn't get released it is more often than not a poor third party program, rather than W98 itself. W95 did have memory leask problems though. Hope you get sorted without having to resort to Windows overlay or whatever. Derek.W

Just a long shot but if you have Tweakui installed try the "Rebuild Icons" funtion from the Repair tab.

G'day, Restoring the registry, as suggested, should do the trick. However, if you can remember when you downloaded this program, look for files created/ downloaded on this date. Especially in the root directory. I had a similar experience last year, and what the little B((((@@@ had done was to change iexplorer, msdos and explorer.exe with bogus files that were put into my root directory. I had to go into DOS mode and manually delete them (and their references in system.ini and win.ini). Check with msconfig (or whatever you prefer)that your win.ini, config.sys, autoexec.bat anf system.ini files are ok. regards, Elric