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Missing Desktop Icon
Name: Odyssey Date: July 22, 2005 at 07:26:39 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 512M
Comment:
My "desktop" icon that normally resides in the lower left portion of the lower taskbar (just right of the start button) has disappeared. Wonder where it went, but of greater moment is how to restore it?
Chaintech 7NJL6 ATX Motherboard AMD Athlon XP 2900+ CPU 400FSB Barton Core Chaintech G-Force MX4000 Video card NVidia Nforce2 Ultra 400 + MCPS W2K SP4 512 MB RAM
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