Once in while the taskbar (the one with the start menu) in your Microsoft Windows will disappear from your desktop without any warning what so ever. This is due to the fact that explorer, the default shell for Microsoft Windows have been terminated by itself or other by other processes. Most of computer user will push the restart button when this happen, in order for the taskbar to reappear.

The solution to this is to restart explorer shell (explorer.exe) , and there is an easy way to restart explorer shell without having to restart your Microsoft Windows.

Follow this step to restart explorer shell (explorer.exe)

1. If task manager is not running, run Task Manager by holding the key CTRL+SHIFT+ESC.
2. In application tab (the first tab in Task Manager) , click on the “New Task” button.
3. Type explorer. exe in the create new task popup.
4. Click “Ok”.

Explorer.exe will start, and your taskbar will reappear will all the background program in the system tray.

Hope this will this easy step on how to restart explorer shell (explorer.exe) will be useful to all.

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For those of you who are using bblean as an alternative shell for Microsoft Windows might complain that the menu is a bit hard to use. That is what the guy which I recommend using bblean as an alternative shell instead of explorer for Microsoft Windows complained to me.

Well, there is a mod for bblean that use icons in bblean menu by Zeytok from lost in the box forum.

For the unattended, bblean is an alternative shell for Microsoft Windows. You can get bblean here. BBlean use less resource than Microsoft Windows default shell, which is explorer.

Back to the bblean mod, you can download and try the bblean mod menu with icons here

The bblean with menu icons size, hue and saturation, and alpha value can be tweaked from the bblean configuration menu. I find this mod, bblean with menu icons is easier to use and give some enhancement to my dull desktop.

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Microsoft Windows XP thumbnail view is a great feature in Microsoft Windows XP which enable user to preview the images instead of opening the images to view, saving us a lot of time.

Today I receive a system which the user complaint that suddenly there isn’t any filename under files or folder when she is viewing thumbnail view in her Microsoft Windows XP.

For those of you who have undergo the same problem, the solutions is quite simple.

1. Hold the ‘Shift’ key and right click on the folder, any folder will do.
2. Click open.

The filenames will display again in Thumbnail view in Microsoft Windows XP. And if by some reason you would like to have no filenames in Thumbnail view in Microsoft Windows XP, just repeat the same steps mention above.

One of the reason I can think of for this features, is when you disable showing filenames under thumbnail view in windows explorer, the display area is enlarge to enable windows explorer to display bigger images in Thumbnail view in Microsoft Windows XP.

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