Re: Nothing works!!

In news:3BB9CB97-A77C-4DD1-816B-75B64523803A@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
xjennersonx <xjennersonx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> I unplugged my computer and then plugged everything back in and
> turned it on again, and then my task manager did indeed pop up. I did
> the restore via the file name you gave me and it worked!!! You have
> no idea how grateful I am!! Thank you so much
>
> "Galen" wrote:
>
>> In news:AF8894EA-7F33-42A4-8882-6BF718A0617B@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>> xjennersonx <xjennersonx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> had this to say:
>>
>> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>>
>>> So here is the deal. A couple weeks ago, I defragmented my drives
>>> and went to bed while they worked. The next morning my girlfriend
>>> noticed a lot of windows open, and End Task'd all of them. Then,
>>> there was nothing on the screen except our desktop picture... not
>>> even the start bar! A couple times I could still hit CTRL+ALT+DEL
>>> and get the Task Manager to look around on my computer and all my
>>> stuff was still there, just with no way to look at it.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have ANY idea what the heck happened? Or how to fix
>>> this??? Please?
>>
>> Open the task manager, click file, new task (run) and type
>> 'explorer.exe' without the quotes. If that doesn't popup your
>> taskbar and desktop then click on the processes tab and kill any
>> other explorer.exe processes and try again... If that STILL doesn't
>> get it running...
>>
>> Run this "%SystemRoot%\System32\restore\rstrui.exe" (again without
>> the quotes) and restore it to a date and time prior to this
>> happening.
>>
>> Galen
>> --
>>
>> "But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
>> without them."
>>
>> Sherlock Holmes

Excellent, glad to know it worked for you.

Galen
--

"But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
without them."

Sherlock Holmes


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