I've already tried this:

had no luck. All I know is that the computer crashed from a power outage. I've tried clicking the restore button and rebooting. Nothing.

What else is there to try?

Would like to have the desktop back.

It powers on fine. I can login and use windows just fine. Just you get that annoying restore active desktop screen.

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3 Answers

You can try to edit the registry

Run regedit

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\SafeMode\Components

Change the key value - DeskHtmlVersion REG_DWORD 0x00000110(272) to decimal zero

If the Desktops are controlled by Group Policy, and if you are not an administrator for the computer or network, you may not have the proper permissions to repair it.

Perhaps check out this related/similar SU question: Recovery Windows XP Active Desktop for Restricted Users

1 Open Notepad
2 Copy and Paste

HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
strComputer = "."
Set objReg = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
strKeyPath = "Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\SafeMode\Components"
strValue = "0"
ValueName = "DeskHtmlVersion"
objReg.SetDWORDValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, ValueName, strValue

3 Save As SHAILENDRA GENIOUS.VBS
4 Double click the VBS file.
5 Refresh Desktop.

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