can u please help me. i got home and my dad had been using my pc. i found that the start menu just disappears after like 5 seconds of the pc loading up. Also so do all the desktop icons. sorry this is all the information i can give because i dont know what he has done. i have heard that u can reset ur pc back so it just restores to like a day ago or something. please can someone tell me how to do this.
thanks

what version on windows are you running? sounds to be like explorer.exe has crashed or is corrupt.


If you are running windows xp try this

press CTRL+ALT+DELETE
in the window that pops up click on the applications tab
on the bottom of that window click "new task"
Enter "explorer.exe" without the quotations

That should load explorer back up, let me know how it goes

i think ur right cos i remember seeing my avg popping up and saying something about explorer. i run xp

my start menu and icons keep flashing reappearing and disappearing.

i tried what u said and it made the start menu reappear but i still keeps diapering again

could i try downloading and reinstalling explorer

For system restore go:

Start - Run -

either cut and paste as below or type it in:

%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

Thereafter restore your computer to an earlier time