If you're using Windows, you may have experienced… It may not happen to you, but under certain circumstances the surface Windows taskbar does not appear. Yes you can't see the desktop, start menu or icons, and all that appears is a blank screen.
This is usually caused by someone malicious software or incorrect settings in programs that prevent the Explorer.exe process from running. So since the explorer process cannot be started, the Windows desktop does not appear when you log on.
Below we will see how you can re-display the Windows desktop when it disappears.
What are we going to do; We will just try to manually start the explorer.exe process from Task Manager.
To start the task manager, press the three keys CTRL + ALT + DEL together. The Windows security screen you see below will appear.
Click Task Manager or Task Manager. When the Task Manager window opens, click More Details, as shown below:
The Task Manager will display a more detailed screen, along with a menu at the top.
On this screen, click Perform New Task to open a dialog box.
In the window that opens and in the Create New Job field, type explorer, and then click OK.
Click OK, the explorer.exe process will start and you will see your desktop and menu again.
Now you can search more easily from where it started problem which caused the desktop to disappear.
