Re: XP Home working (?) but no desktop!

Thank you!!
It was nowhere as straightforward as it should have been, but you put me on
the right track.
I eventually got the thing to re-install itself from a hidden partition.
Seems to be working OK now except for a '... Has recovered from a serious
error ... etc' message that comes up every time I start or re-start.
Just have to put up with this, I guess.

Now to copy back his files from my externalhard drive ......

Thank you, very much!
Pat

"GregRo" <webworm11@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:18:17 +0100, "Pat"
> <patclough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>A friend has had his Packard Bell on the internet without a firewall or
>>antivirus protection!
>>It survived for a surprisingly long time!
>>Finally, he has had a long battle to clean it up. As he cannot find his
>>restore CD, I have not suggested that - it would have been the easiest
>>thing
>>to do.
>>After a long battle, it now seems to be clean except that it boots to the
>>Packard Bell screen but does not show the desktop, Start button, task bar
>>or
>>clock. Ctrl - ALT - Delete brings up the task manager, showing that he is
>>logged on, and we can run exolorer from there. Explorer shows the HDD
>>contents are still there.
>>
>>Please, how do we persuade it to complete the boot to the desktop?
>>
>>We have managed to create a new user account, with Admin priveleges, but
>>this behaves the same.
>>
>>HELP!!
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>Pat
>>
> This may or may not work.
> Boot to safe mode F8 twice.
> Look for a folder call i386
> Type foldername\I386\WINNT32.EXE
> Do a repair install
> Use the key on the machine.
> Don't activate.
> Clean up the spyware and adaware if you can.
> Then if success then activate it.
>
>
>
> Greg RO
>


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