desktop icons won't show up

the other day, i went to pantheraproject.net to download shareaza. i did, and i saw a version 6. i felt it was fake so i didn't finish the installation. but after i restarted my computer, my desktop icons were gone. The folder is still there with everything but the desktop just doesn't want to show up. I can't even use my mouse to make selection boxes.

I've checked autorun programs, open processes, explorer extensions, HijackThis, Spybot, and it seems that everything's clean. My guess is that there's some kind of registry tweak going on here. Any ideas?

Any chance of system restore John?

OMG, I had the same problem with my Computer. I just made a new User ID. Did the job.

The best you can do is copy User settings from your current ID to the new one.

That's not fair! :lol: . I had to make the whole User ID thing. Anyway, I'm happy for you.

problem solved. Had to right click View>Show Desktop Icons...