who told you to delete the entry? that disabled Explorer. you will have to undo the registry edit you made and set it back to what it was. you can also get mad at the person that told you this. what version of Windows are you running? you may be able to recover, depending on if the system took an automatic backup or not.
Herb...
After logon, i have no desktop therefore no start menu or desktop icons just a blank screen with my wallpaper on, i can access my programs and files via Task Manager but any help in curing this fault would be helpful. This happened after trying to fix a previuos problem which involved deleting the text (filename) in a file named 'Shell' in a Regit file.

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