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Name: bbbusmc Date: August 13, 2005 at 05:48:58 Pacific OS: WinXP CPU/Ram: Intel Pentium 4
Comment:
After being online for about an hour one night, I closed out Internet Explorer and signed out of MSN Messenger, after doing so everything(all icons) on my desktop dissappeared. I have found several different sited with severeal different opinions and solutions. The most common one is going to Task Manager, getting command prompt, then changing to %systemroot% to change the shdowcvw.dll. Well I do not know how to change to the %systemroot%, can anyone help me out?
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