Desktop After reboot wallpaper shows up, no desk top icons, no start up menue and no clock.

Hit the start button, find Internet Explorer in the menu, right-click and click send to desktop, create shortcut.

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Hiding Desktop Icons in Windows XPWith a good choice of wallpaper, your computer desktop can add an attractive, even artistic, element to your home or office. Eye-catching desktop wallpaper can be as decorative in its way as a painting or other wall hanging.



If you value the aesthetic potential of your desktop, you might like to enhance it even further by hiding the desktop icons.


Hiding or showing your desktop icons in Windows XP is a simple, two-click procedure.

To hide desktop icons:

1. Right-click on the desktop and open the "Arrange Icons By" sub-menu.
   
   
2. In the sub-menu, click "Show Desktop Icons" to uncheck it.
   
   
   

The icons should disappear to leave a clean, uncluttered desktop. To show desktop icons again, repeat the above procedure. When the icons are hidden, clicking on "Show Desktop Icons" will enable the option and the icons will reappear.



Hiding Desktop Icons in Windows XPWith a good choice of wallpaper, your computer desktop can add an attractive, even artistic, element to your home or office. Eye-catching desktop wallpaper can be as decorative in its way as a painting or other wall hanging.



If you value the aesthetic potential of your desktop, you might like to enhance it even further by hiding the desktop icons.


Hiding or showing your desktop icons in Windows XP is a simple, two-click procedure.

To hide desktop icons:

1. Right-click on the desktop and open the "Arrange Icons By" sub-menu.
   
   
2. In the sub-menu, click "Show Desktop Icons" to uncheck it.
   
   
   

The icons should disappear to leave a clean, uncluttered desktop. To show desktop icons again, repeat the above procedure. When the icons are hidden, clicking on "Show Desktop Icons" will enable the option and the icons will reappear.


To hide desktop icons:
1...Right-click on the desktop and open the "Arrange Icons By" sub-menu.
2...In the sub-menu, click "Show Desktop Icons" to uncheck it.

1. 
   

The icons should disappear to leave a clean, uncluttered desktop. To show desktop icons again, repeat the above procedure. When the icons are hidden, clicking on "Show Desktop Icons" will enable the option and the icons will reappear.

hello, try this and see if it will be your fix.. when you are at your desktop right click and go to view and then select show desktop icons. This should bring everything up for you. If not let me know and we will go onto the next step.

Right Click on the desktop/wallpaper>Tap your mouse to "Arrange Icons By" > Click Show Desktop Icons

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Go to the FSX directory, find FSX.exe, right-click it with the mouse, and whilst holding the right button down, drag to your desktop and release the button. Choose "create shortcut here" from the fly-out menu. This will sort it. Good luck

OK what OS are you using..I am assuming Xp or Vista...I am assuming XP

These are desktop icons not system tray icons right...

This is for XP only if they are desktop icons...

To resolve this behavior, turn on the Show Desktop Icons feature:

1. Right-click the desktop.
2. Point to Arrange Icons By.
3. Click Show Desktop Icons.
4. If that didn't work go here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330170

To put a shortcut on the desktop, simply click Start and then find Internet Explorer, left click and drag it to the desktop. It will create a shortcut.

Hi!

You just need to right click on the desktop and then choose View and then Show desk top icons. The icons will be there.

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Rylee

this is ok, either someone's yanking your chain, or you accidently activated an ability of your graphics chip, this mode is for "tablet" PCs which have a portrait mode. you most likely have an icon in the bottom left of your screen by the clock for graphics settings, one of these will be to rotate the screen.

it is also possible that this ability may be programmed to one of the hotkeys, however without model info I cannot tell.

your mouse should have flipped too, if not then someone may be fooling with you..

check if you can click your icons... if you cannot then right click on the desktop and change the wallpaper on your desktop, also re-enable your icons from this menu, you may also need to unhide your start bar


hope this helps

if you mean you want to reset everything then i'm going to assume that you want to reformate your pc. And as far as your icons go i'm going to assume that your talking about your My Computer and My Documents icons and if you want thouse on your desk top do the following:

Right click the taskbar and go to properties
Next click the start menu tab
Choose classic start menu and your icons should appear on the desktop

But this is only my assumtion as to what you mean, as Fusiondc said please elaborate a little more so i can help you out with this ;)