pc boots to documents and not the desktop

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when the pc boot up it open my documents with everything listed in the folder
and the desktop is no where to be seen, if I minmize the folder its black and
no desktop or taskbar but if I open task manager and in new task type
"explorer" then the desktop comes up and everythings okay so I don't know
whats up with that, this happens even in safe mode. I hope I find out because
all is good and I don't want to reinstall again.
 
Open the regedit and navigate to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

In the right pane, the data value for "shell" should only be explorer.exe.
If it is not, click on shell, then the edit tab, then modify and type in:
explorer.exe
 
Thanks it had Shell"="Explorer.exe \"+WindowsDirectory+\\mscalc.exe\"", but
I changed it like you said and its all fixed, thank you so much, I wonder
what caused this.
 
I understand that sometimes this gets changed during the installation of some
third party applications. Shouldn't happen but it does.
 
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