Dean,

YOU DA MAN!!!!! I was able to bring up the Task Manager as you suggested.
Explorer was running and I closed it per your instructions. Still no icons
before or after a restart. I then restarted Explorer and the icons are now
back.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!

Rando

"dean-dean" wrote:

> Well, if you Ctrl+Alt+Del, can you contact Task Manager? On the processes
> tab, is explorer.exe running? If it is running, right-click on it, and
> choose End Process. If it's not running, go to the Applications tab, choose
> File from the menu, and click on New Task. Type explorer.exe in the Run
> box, and press Enter.
>
> "Rando" <Rando@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7885F039-9BD2-42AF-928F-788E1A0CFF1D@microsoft.com...
> > Just the sidebar is visible and working. No icons, no menu, just a blank
> > screen. Nothing, zip, nada.
> >
> > "Julian" wrote:
> >
> >> "Rando" <Rando@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:CB4DAAB8-E9B4-4E38-97BD-CCA1B611B968@microsoft.com...
> >> > Help!!! All of my desktop icons are gone form Vista. Only the sidebar
> >> > is
> >> > visible. Right-clicking in the desktop has no result.
> >>
> >> Absolutely nothing?
> >> No menu at all?
> >>
>
>