Removing Active desktop recovery screen in windows

1. Go to Run and type regedit
2. Now navigate to this path – HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\SafeMode\Components
3. You would find a key named DeskHtmlVersion
4. Right click the key and select Modify
5. Under the label Base, select the radio button Decimal
6. Change Value data to 0
7. Click OK

Sometimes the above itself may not be enough in such a case do the following as well

1. Open task manager (on task bar right click and select task manager)
2. open processes tab, search for explorer and right click and say end process
3. once u have done it for all explorers, u'll see no more task bar
4. now in task manager, clickon file menu > new task > and type explorer
5. thats it.