Re: lost all icons....

Well, sure, there can be more than one reason to get the problem. I am just citing
one or two of them. In fact, if the OP did a driver update from WU, they could have
a very similar issue to what you saw.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
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"MAP" <MAP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> "glee" wrote:
>
> > Do you know what updates you installed?
> >
> > Another MVP tells me this can often be due to a corrupt user profile, and that
> > generally, this cannot be recovered. In that case the easiest solution is to
logon
> > as administrator and create a new profile, then copy the old one into it, per
the
> > instructions here:
> >
> > How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile
> > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151
> >
> > Try logging on using the Administrator account (in Safe Mode), then run Hijack
This
> > and post back with the resultant log file. Actually, it would be best if you
posted
> > the log in a spyware forum, but post here to see if that is even involved.
> >
> > Download, unzip, and run Hijack This from one of these locations:
> > http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html
> > http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/HijackThis.exe
> > Unzip to a folder *other than* your Desktop or the Temp folder, double-click
> > HijackThis.exe, and hit "Scan".
> >
> > When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a "Save Log"
> > button.
> > Press that, save the log somewhere you can find it (Desktop, My Documents, or
> > similar).
> > Most of what it lists will be harmless or even required, so do NOT fix anything
yet.
> >
> > Copy the log files and paste them into a new post at ONE of these forums:
> > http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30
> > http://forums.spywareinfo.com/,
> > http://castlecops.com/forum67.html
> > In your post, please state your problem clearly and what you've done so far to
fix
> > it.
> >
> > The folks there will tell you what to remove.
> >
> > See the "housekeeping" they ask you to complete before you post your log:
> > http://aumha.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4075
> >
> > A tutorial for using Hijack This is located here:
> > http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/
> > --
> > Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
> > http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/conduct/default.mspx
> >
> >
> > "lee" <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:475B28DB-EACB-4919-A191-FAAC32055DE7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > just did a windows xp update. once completed i rebooted the system.
> > > now it takes 3 times longer to boot up..
> > > once it has booted up it takes 5 times longer at the user logon screen...
> > > once the user screen has passed all i get is my background mpicture...
> > > no icons or ttoolbars in sight...
> > > what have i done?
> >
> >
>
> You may be right but two days ago I had a blue screen of death with an error
> code of 0x000000D1: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
> Which left my desktop with no icons and no taskbar at reboot. A simple boot
> into safe mode and uninstalling the offending DVD writer via device mgr. and
> a reinstall of the drive seems to have solved the problem. So their is more
> than one reason for this symptom.

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