well my taskbar is a thin gray line at the bottom no start button, everything is prety messed up I mean it workes but very very minimally, not what I would call a usable explorer. I followed the guide to a T and have even branched out quite a bit and tried adding and doing some stuff myself and it gave it just a little bit more of a working interface but still not good at all, Im wondering if there is anything outside the guides that u may have done with the new winpe that may have yielded better results for you.