HELP - System Restore did not work right

[dave]

I performed a system restore from a previous knwon good
checkpoint (at least several saves ago before bad
uninstall).


The system boots up, shows login screen w/all users. You
can pick any user, log in and then all it shows is the
background selected for the user. No desktop icons, no
start button, not system tray.

Mouse/keyboard respond just fine. Can bring up the task
manager and it seems as if all the normal process are
running. However, cannot shutdown, logout, etc. The 1st
attempt will show the "waiting on explorer.exe" box,
choosing either cancel or stop process options does
nothing - though may hang task manager (50/50).

explorer.exe IS running when I look at task processes.

running in safe mode works fine -- desktop shows up, start
and tray exist as well.

any ideas ?!?!

TIA

 

[dave]

Thanks for the info, but unfortunately, the problem is
that NOTHING else about my desktop is restored.

No icons, no start menu, no tray and so on.

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi Dave!
Try this:-
Open system properties and turn off system restore > ok > reboot
but it will erase all your earlier restore points.
or, reinstall xp service pack1.It will surely correct the problem
regards/
ssg/pronetworks.org

 

[Maureen Goldman]

Thanks for the info, but unfortunately, the problem is
that NOTHING else about my desktop is restored.

Kelly has a downloadable fix at line 195, right "restore desktop icons
and taskbar". You might want to look at the other tweaks as well (I'm
wondering about the .exe fix at line 12). Also Kelly's a-z area.
However, this feels awfully piecemeal to me.
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm

 

[Dave]

Thanks all !

It turns out that in "playing around", I decided to kill
processes to see if something would happen -- mostly to
shutdown, but...)

It seems that ths svchost.exe had several instances
running and I stopped each of them. I got a msg that an
RPC error occured and the system had to re-boot. BUT,
before all of that, all my icons came back, system tray,
etc.

Now, the only problem is that I get the error "TCP/IP
Network Transport Not installed" ?!?!

anyone w/ideas ?

I'll post in the network and thread too..

TIA