Subj : Missing My Computer icon
To   : JAY EMRIE
From : JEFF GUERDAT
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 07:40 am

On 09-05-05, JAY EMRIE said to ALL:

JE>I have a laptop with W95 coming in that has the My Computer icon missing
JE>from the desktop. It is not in the Recycle Bin either. The owner has no
JE>idea where, why or how it disappeared to. 95 (nor does 98 - tried it
JE>here last night) doesn't have the same feature XP does as follows:

JE>Rt click on blank spot on the desktop
JE>Left click on properties
JE>left click on Customize  Desktop
JE>Put a check mark by My Computer.
JE>which would presumably restore the My computer Icon.

JE>Any idea how to restore the My Computer icon.
JE>By the way, the laptop does not have a CD reader!! Only two floppy
JE>drives. It is a Gateway. Came to him that way and he didn't get it
JE>corrected. :-(.  So it isn't a simple thing to restore 95.

JE>He also has a desk top eMachine that did not come with restore CD.
JE>It will not boot up. I do not know if either has restore partition or
JE>not. I will have them in a week or so to check out.

JE>Any ideas?

See if the following link helps with the missing My Computer icon (it relates
to Active Desktop):

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000155.htm

Also, put the hard drive in a different computer and copy files onto it.  Alan
recently pointed someone who was local to me that had the same issue - no
CDROM drive and needed a load of the OS.  I pulled the hard drive and put it
in my laptop, booted DOS from floppy, prepared the drive and copied files.  A
pain that takes a while (make SURE you have Smartdrive enabled for caching
hard drive writes!) but easily gets by missing hardware...


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