I've manage to screw up my desktop, I have no Icons on it. I'm currently running explorer from Task Manager to access programs. How do I go about getting my desktop with icons back? XProfessional SP3 bpadjr@hotmail.com

Note: This problem can be caused by ‘malware’. Click Start > Run, type regedit and press Enter. In the left pane navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon. In the right pane, make sure there is a REG_SZ named Shell and it has a value of "explorer.exe" (no quotation marks). If it’s not there, create it by clicking Edit > New > String Value then right-click it and key in explorer.exe then restart the computer. If the Start button is missing, open regedit via Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc then on the Applications Tab click ‘New Task’ at the bottom, type regedit.exe and press Enter. To be prudent create a system restore point (%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe in Task Manager) before making any changes to the registry.

Right click on the desktop > Arrange icons by > Show desktop icons

First,You need to go first take the backup of the registry and go to run and type regedit and this location (hkeylocal_machine\software\Microsoft\Windows nt\CurrentVersion\Winlogon.) and find explorer.exe and it valu and if it is not found please create it. Othere wise your system need to format.