The blue desktop icon on your desktop is for Internet Explorer, not Windows
Explorer.
See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945402/ or
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555849 (applies to WinXP, too) or
http://www.winhelponline.com/article...ows-Vista.html
(applies to WinXP, too).
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IE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...plorer.general
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
WOLFMOTHER wrote:
> i have windows XP but unable to access windows explorer because the blue
> e
> icon has disappeared. can someone tell me how to get it back??????? i have
> files in there that i would like to get back into.