Solved Windows 7 Black Desktop

[phinagin]

Hello all I currently have a bit of an issue in that my whole desktop is black. I cannot see anything on it except my mouse cursor. The only way I was able to go onto the internet was to start task manager and start a new task with firefox from there.

This has happened several times before and it takes a long time to fix itself, I am sure there is an easier and faster method to fix this. I have a screen shot below and the two windows open in bottom corner is just firefox and task manger.

Any help surrounding this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all.

 

[Brink]

Hello Phinagin, and welcome to Seven Forums.

It sounds like you may need to restart explorer.

While in Task Manager, and start the explorer process from File (menu bar) -> New Task.

 

[phinagin]

where is explorer located on my hard drive(I dont think i ever moved it so probably default location)?

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi
You might try this too,
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproperf/thread/d47aece7-5e12-46ec-8d3e-e8671730a7ce

 

[Brink]

where is explorer located on my hard drive(I dont think i ever moved it so probably default location)?

It's at "C:\Windows\explorer.exe".

You should be able to run it from Task Manager like you did with Firefox, but start explorer.exe instead.

 

[phinagin]

where is explorer located on my hard drive(I dont think i ever moved it so probably default location)?

It's at "C:\Windows\explorer.exe".

You should be able to run it from Task Manager like you did with Firefox, but start explorer.exe instead.

thank you that has seemed to fix everything

 

[Brink]

Great news.