Re: explorer

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hook.steven@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Rock wrote:

hook.steven@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


Hey,
A friend of mine was having trouble with his pc, display drivers were
doing unexpected things and I just couldn't get it right. So I did a
repair intall of XP (sp1 incl) and then it worked really well, so I
installed SP2 from my standard download that I always use, and Symantec
AV, and when I reboot it just shows the desktop, no icons, no start
bar, I can open task manager, <shift><ctrl><esc>, now I've had it
before that you can manually start explorer.exe from there, but this
time, when you start it it opens, the task manager flashes accross the
bottom and then goes away.
Any Ideas or tips of clues?
I'd really appreciate it, the machine was at long last set up so well!
I don't want to start again from scratch!
Steven


Was it working after SP2 but before Symantec?

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Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User


Installed Symantec, then SP2, then rebooted and it didn't work.
Symantec didn't ask for a reboot.


I don't know what caused the problem. Maybe there was malware on the system, or maybe the Symantec program caused the problem. Was the AV program running when you did the SP2 update?

There are several options here. One is to remove Symantec, remove the SP2 upgrade then redo it.

How to use the Automatic Recovery feature to recover your computer if the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Setup program is not completed successfully
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=875355

How to remove Windows XP Service Pack 2 from your computer
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=875350

Another is to create an installation CD slipstreamed with SP2 and do a repair install.

http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm
http://unattended.msfn.org/beginner/slipstream.htm

Autostreamer
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1092632287/1
http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/using_autostreamer/using_autostreamer.html
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=223562

A third option is to do a clean install with a slipstreamed XP with SP2 installation CD.

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Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User

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