thanks for being here. I am beaten down and near brainless.

About four months ago, my desktop tab disappeared.
I have been going from forum to forum trying to find the answer in
registry settings.

Weekly in safe mode I run:
my antivirus Avira
have added AVG

Spybot
Bughunter
Smitfraud fix
Arovax
Lavasoft Adaware

and two online trojan-antivir-keylogger,etc.scans.

Arovax tells me spywad each week and points to user and machine:
Software-Microsoft-Windows-Curr.Version-Policies........I have done a
complete restore of said machine, without change. I have been to
KellysKorner, and a multitude of honorable forums trying to find the
answer.

My house burned down and my church gave me this machine. I feel the
hurdles I have jumped in fine tuning have been great, except for this.

Can you point me in the direction of what settings I need to change in
user and machine policies to make my desktop tab come back? This has
been my life's quest the past few months, and boy am I really
tired.....