Re: No icons, no desktop, taskbar - Win XP pro

Greetings JDSr

My son's computer has the exact same symptoms that you describe. One
difference is we run Win XP home Ed.

Have you found a cure to this problem?? From what I read none of the kind
advice worked.

Thanks
DG

"JDSr" wrote:


"Elmo" <elmogeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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JDSr wrote:
MSCONFIG has everything disabled.
Ran SFC /SCANNOW - took about 20 to run, no errors, no messages, could
not find a logfile.
Rebooted - No Change.


Have you tried this?

SFC /SCANNOW

In Safe Mode, run MSCONFIG and disable everything starting from there.
Reboot, does that help?

Could the hard drive be damaged? In MSConfig, set it to run CHKDSK,
reboot.

Try launching Explorer.exe from Task Manager, and see if it gives you an
error.

If it gives you the "Explorer.exe has encountered a problem" error, look
in the "Click Here" information for a Mod Name; that file is causing your
problems. Please report back with what you find.

--
Joe =o)

From Previous

Restarted - No Change - No Taskbar, No Icons, No Right Click. My
background is there & if I start & minimize several programs from Run New
Task, I can get to them via alt-tab. Except (of course) for Explorer &
Iexplore, which appear to start & run for approx 1 second & do not show up
in Processes for more than a second or 2. No errors are displayed.

In addition I have tried:
safe mode - no change
last good config - no change
msconfig, uncheck all but essential in all tabs - no change
chkdsk /f - no errors found
Made sure that no Firewalls were running (MS or third party)
Uninstalled my antivirus (NAV 2006) - no change
Seagate Tools & OnTrack (Long Test on both) - No HDD errors, No data
errors - PASS 100%- Drive is a Seagate Barracuda ATA 133 7200 rpm
remove the HDD, put into another system - virus scan using Symantec CE,
AVG Malware 7.5, NOD32, F-Prot (all current) - No virus found
Checked TechNet - followed the 3 suggestions - no change
Installed new RAM - no change
Replaced video card - no change
repair install of Windows - no change
Delete Explorer.exe & Iexplore.exe, repair install of Windows - no change.
Hiren's 9 & UBCD 411 both show all hardware is good

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Line 195 Right
Downloaded & ran the fix, got the "fix has been installed" message.
Rebooted - no change.

Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
HideIcons should be set to 0

Just for fun I set it to 1, rebooted. Set it to 0 & rebooted again, No
Change.

Downloaded & ran http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm , Program
was run while logged in as Administrator, appeared to run properly, got a
message about restarting Windows Shell & a "Program has finished" window.
Restarted - No Change - No Taskbar, No Icons, No Right Click. My background
is there.

In short, I've done the simple stuff - That I can think of.

I need to avoid a reload if at all possible. Thanks.



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