windows explorer woes

[EricCamper]

I recently lost my toolbar up top on explorer... IF I hit My computer, it is GONE, but if I hit WINDOWS KEY+E, the entire spectrum is there, address bar, back forward buttons, search, File and edit etc... Anyone ever have this.

Thanx

[Donald2B]

What version of windows? I have never seen this before. All of those bring up the exact same window for me. Hmmmm...

[EricCamper]

Xp... I know, it just happened one day... if I right click START and hit explore it works fine also

[Donald2B]

Strange...can you post a screenshot? Are you able to right-click or anything like that to get a menu or something to pop up? I am in Windows 7 right now, but I can boot into XP in a little bit. I don't think I have ever seen this behavior.

[EricCamper]

here ya go... bad on the left, good on the right.

[Donald2B]

Wow...I have never seen the menu bar disappear too. I am sure there has to be a way to get that back.

[EricCamper]

anyone ever set this... we are stumped... lol

[oligophant]

yup, happened to me a lot, just go to task manager, ctrl+alt+del, file>new activity and look for c:/windows/explorer.exe, that would bring it back

ps: i have spanish and italian version of windows so im translateting the comands, but i think its no biggie.