desktop icons and task bar

[Guest]

when I boot Win2000 pro workstation, desktop icons and task bar appear for a
second and disappear, the only thing I can see - is a blank desktop.The same
happens if I reboot in safe mode, or use any other users profile, incl.
administrator.I tried to run desktop from Task manager- same thing- it
disappears in a moment.Any idea why it may happen?
Please, help.

 

[George Hester]

Likely the shell is crashing. Can you do this and get anything.
Ctrl-Alt-Del | Task Manager | File | New Task (Run)... | cmd | OK?

If so try this in the command prompt:

cd\
eventvwr.msc /s

You should get the event viewer and you can check maybe if there is a shell
crash. Why that is happening is likely due to something loading either a
service a driver or something in your Run keys in the Registry.

You can do this in the command prompt:

compmgmt.msc /s

and you should be able to see in Device Manager what may or may not be
loading. You can View | Show Hidden devices which are non-pnp drivers that
also can cause this. I suspect it is a driver because in Safe Mode no
services are starting (or trying to start) that are not imperative.