Cant access to "my computer"

[NooNoo]

There are utilities that set policies and registry entries to stop icons showing.

So it was working at one point and then stopped. Think back, what did you install?

[brigadier]

Nothing more than what i wrote on the post above (

Grrr driving me mad.

Checked my Hard disk ....... OK
Searched for Trojan .......... none
Scanned for virus ............. all ok

[confus-ed]

So if you 'cast about a bit' (search!) in this forum, you'll find a specific thread on your "unable to find the entry getIUMS in the dynamic library MSDART.DLL" error - its a file version problem with certain installers & a number of 'get arounds' are suggested ..

So all I can suggest is that you 'vaguely' follow Noo's 'order of install' (I have my own variation which comes down to doing all driver updates & then checking at windows update, before adding anything other than firewall & AV) - BUT definately add office & its updates last (noting whether a few 'retards' will 'provoke' your issue before you do), before yet another visit to windows update - the 'explain' is that 'this' is yet another more complicated version of 'patches of patches of patches' which haunts Billy Boys products..

Can't say personally I've had this issue for a while (I fix 'pc/computer stuff' for a living) , so maybe they got the patches all sorted out a bit ?, but at home I'm happily using using xp SP2 beta & office 2003, which I know is definately 'better' having less files to update or at least only doing one lot of updating & not 796 (or whatever) times the 'normal' way does

btw just which 'office' incantation (version) are we talking about ? Since there's now quite a few & I can't remember for certain which 'office' does this & just why ..