Windows 7 Explorer not showing Computer

[ckoiner]

In Windows 7 Explorer, the Computer icon is not showing in the left pane--neither in the default view or the 'show all folders' view.

You can see from the screen captures that I have Explorer set to open to Computer, but no Computer in left pane, and no drives are accessible directly through Explorer.

The drives are fine (from using alternate Explorer alternatives).

How can I get the Computer icon back in the left pane?

 

[Nosmo]

Make a shortcut to windows explorer and in properties for the shortcut,
place the following in the target line.

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n,/e,C:\

This might or might not be what you want to see.

 

[SIW2]

Interesting.

Can you get the computer icon on the desktop and run it from there?

 

[ckoiner]

Nosmo's suggestion helped some - shows up in the top bar. But it still does not show up in the left pane.

And no, there is no way to access it through the Desktop icon in the left pane.

 

[SIW2]

Rt click your desktop>Personalize>Change Desktop Icons

Tick Computer, Apply,OK.

See if the shortcut is on the desktop now and if it functions.

 

[ckoiner]

Not possible. Computer and Recycle Bin are grayed out.

 

[matthieup]

I have the exact same problem, and by playing around I found that if i create a new account it has access to computer... it must be somewhere in the user profile

 

[Shinobi73]

Do you have multiple user profiles on your setup? you might be in a guest profile where the icon is disabled.

try logging into your admin profile then go to user accounts then you can adjust the profile there to show the icons

 

[matthieup]

no
i'm in an admin profile.
i did just create another profile, also admin, to see if it was any different there...

 

[nate42nd]

Can you manually set the target using this tutorial?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2863-windows-explorer-taskbar-icon-change-open-target.html

 

[matthieup]

i can but it doesn't make a difference.
Somehow i think our problem is that for the current user there is a restriction on the access to computer

 

[kacpak]

has anyone solved this? i have exact the same problem, and i have no idea how to fix it.
i would really appreciate some help with it
[sorry for my English, still learning]

 

[Philip Goddard]

Please, somebody, was ckoiner's issue of non-display of Computer resolved, and how? I would really like to know, because I have exactly the same issue. And because Computer doesn't show up in the folder tree pane, file browsing dialogs for opening or saving files in applications often don't work now, and I can't use my regular FTP client (Wise-FTP) at all because of this problem - it clearly using an Explorer based listing in its 'local' pane.

My regular file manager still works fine, and for the moment I'm using its (basic, non-multithreaded and unfortunately non-secure) FTP facility to make do while I wait to get the Explorer issue resolved. In my case the issue has arisen in a late stage of my installing all my software (some 70 programs) onto a new PC running Win7 Home Premium x64. So far I haven't been able to get any sense about this issue from the hopelessly inadequate MS Support people on the MS Support Forum.

I do think it looks as though some security setting has been covertly applied, which hides Computer in all Explorer windows and dialogs - but I am already in an admin account, so I cannot change things by changing from guest to admin.

 

[Layback Bear]

Click Start/right click in blank spot/properties/Display as a link

 

[SIW2]

Not sure that is going to help - if Phillip's issue id the same as the OP - there ,may be an issue with the registry.

@Phil

Export these two keys into .reg files and post them up:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

and

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

 

[Philip Goddard]

Thanks for your interest. Here are the particular key contents:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ActiveDesktop]
"NoAddingComponents"=dword:00000001
"NoComponents"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments]
"ScanWithAntiVirus"=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoActiveDesktop"=dword:00000001
"NoActiveDesktopChanges"=dword:00000001
"ForceActiveDesktopOn"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum]
"{BDEADF00-C265-11D0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F}"=dword:00000001
"{6DFD7C5C-2451-11d3-A299-00C04F8EF6AF}"=dword:40000021
"{0DF44EAA-FF21-4412-828E-260A8728E7F1}"=dword:00000020

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin"=dword:00000000
"ConsentPromptBehaviorUser"=dword:00000003
"EnableInstallerDetection"=dword:00000001
"EnableLUA"=dword:00000000
"EnableSecureUIAPaths"=dword:00000001
"EnableUIADesktopToggle"=dword:00000000
"EnableVirtualization"=dword:00000001
"PromptOnSecureDesktop"=dword:00000000
"ValidateAdminCodeSignatures"=dword:00000000
"dontdisplaylastusername"=dword:00000000
"legalnoticecaption"=""
"legalnoticetext"=""
"scforceoption"=dword:00000000
"shutdownwithoutlogon"=dword:00000001
"undockwithoutlogon"=dword:00000001
"FilterAdministratorToken"=dword:00000000
"EnableLinkedConnections"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\UIPI]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\UIPI\Clipboard]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\UIPI\Clipboard\ExceptionFormats]
"CF_TEXT"=dword:00000001
"CF_BITMAP"=dword:00000002
"CF_OEMTEXT"=dword:00000007
"CF_DIB"=dword:00000008
"CF_PALETTE"=dword:00000009
"CF_UNICODETEXT"=dword:0000000d
"CF_DIBV5"=dword:00000011



REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}]
@="Computer"
"InfoTip"=hex(2):40,25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,\
33,32,5c,73,68,65,6c,6c,33,32,2e,64,6c,6c,2c,2d,32,32,39,31,33,00
"LocalizedString"=hex(2):40,25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,\
65,6d,33,32,5c,73,68,65,6c,6c,33,32,2e,64,6c,6c,2c,2d,39,32,31,36,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]
@=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,53,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,69,\
6d,61,67,65,72,65,73,2e,64,6c,6c,2c,2d,31,30,39,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,73,\
68,65,6c,6c,33,32,2e,64,6c,6c,00
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\find]
@=hex(2):40,25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,\
73,68,65,6c,6c,33,32,2e,64,6c,6c,2c,2d,38,35,30,33,00
"LegacyDisable"=""
"SuppressionPolicy"=dword:00000080

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\find\command]
@=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,45,78,70,6c,6f,72,65,72,2e,65,\
78,65,00
"DelegateExecute"="{a015411a-f97d-4ef3-8425-8a38d022aebc}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Manage]
@=hex(2):40,25,73,79,73,74,65,6d,72,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,\
6d,79,63,6f,6d,70,75,74,2e,64,6c,6c,2c,2d,34,30,30,00
"MUIVerb"=hex(2):40,25,73,79,73,74,65,6d,72,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,\
33,32,5c,6d,79,63,6f,6d,70,75,74,2e,64,6c,6c,2c,2d,34,30,30,00
"SuppressionPolicy"=dword:4000003c
"HasLUAShield"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Manage\command]
@=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,43,\
6f,6d,70,4d,67,6d,74,4c,61,75,6e,63,68,65,72,2e,65,78,65,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\ShellFolder]
"HideOnDesktopPerUser"=""
"PinToNameSpaceTree"=""


I only hope that all the above means more to you than it does to me!

 

[SIW2]

Hi Phil,

Any reason you can think of why your in proc server entry is this:

Fan Luzhengwuxun ╴ Linlu whole ㍭ Gan Benji ㍬ ⸲ soup l

I was rather expecting it to be:

%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll

What input language are you using?

 

[cluberti]

I don't believe in any language that procserver entry is valid .

 

[SIW2]

No, exactly - he has several entries in Simplified Chinese.

They don't make much sense - my Chinese is poor , tho.

 

[Philip Goddard]

What???

Absolutely no idea why "Fan Luzhengwuxun ╴ Linlu whole ㍭ Gan Benji ㍬ ⸲ soup l" is there instead of "%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll".

I've just checked in my registry, and the latter, correct, data is there, and I see no sign of anything peculier, so I don't know how it could have got corrupted in my exporting the key from Registrar Lite. So, whatever is in my post of the exported keys, that particular data is actually correct in my computer.