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Failure to show desktop and startbar at startup in normal mode and safe mode

 
 
Simon Chung
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      26th Mar 2005
hi,
My windows XP failed to load the desktop and startbar at startup. It
only managed to show the wallpaper and a movable mouse.

I restarted my computer in safe mode and the problem persisted.

I could load the task manager and run programs. I couldn't, however,
load explorer.exe nor iexplore.exe. When I loaded explorer.exe, the
startbar only flashed very briefly at the place it was supposed to
load. The only good news was that I could cry for help here using
FireFox...

I updated the virus definitions of my Norton Anti-virus 8, but could
not get it to scan my computer. It showed an error message: "Could not
start scan. Scen engine returned error 0x20000058".

When I closed "svchost.exe" using "end process", a dialogue appeared
with a countdown timer, saying that my computer will be shut down in
about 1 minute. I opened a command window and typed the stop shutdown
command "shutdown -a", but it didn't work.

Thanks.

Regards,
Simon Chung
 
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Galen
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      26th Mar 2005
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Simon Chung <(E-Mail Removed)> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> hi,
> My windows XP failed to load the desktop and startbar at startup. It
> only managed to show the wallpaper and a movable mouse.
>
> I restarted my computer in safe mode and the problem persisted.
>
> I could load the task manager and run programs. I couldn't, however,
> load explorer.exe nor iexplore.exe. When I loaded explorer.exe, the
> startbar only flashed very briefly at the place it was supposed to
> load. The only good news was that I could cry for help here using
> FireFox...
>
> I updated the virus definitions of my Norton Anti-virus 8, but could
> not get it to scan my computer. It showed an error message: "Could not
> start scan. Scen engine returned error 0x20000058".
>
> When I closed "svchost.exe" using "end process", a dialogue appeared
> with a countdown timer, saying that my computer will be shut down in
> about 1 minute. I opened a command window and typed the stop shutdown
> command "shutdown -a", but it didn't work.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Simon Chung


Now that you've updated your AV definition files have you tried to go ahead
and scan in safe mode since then? Are you still getting the error in there?

Galen
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Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side.


 
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