No desktop icons

[Just Askin']

Hi, don't know what I did or didn't do, but I'm running winxp sp2 on an HP
laptop

reboots only to the desktop, no icons, I did ctrl/alt/delete and create new
task, tried msconfig to do a system restore, there were no points to restore
to, I also looked in running processes and noticed there was no
explorer.exe, so I tried again to start a new process, explorer.exe, and the
screen just flashes off. I can only get into the task manager, Are there any
other commands I can start to get this going?

thanks much

 

[DL]

Tried booting to safe mode, last good configeration?

 

[Just Askin']

Yes, that was the first thing I did.
The last reboot to safe mode, seems to have stuck there, cant get to a
desktop, even a blank one.
Any other suggestions? thanks

 

[Joe Wright]

Hi, don't know what I did or didn't do, but I'm running winxp sp2 on an HP
laptop

reboots only to the desktop, no icons, I did ctrl/alt/delete and create new
task, tried msconfig to do a system restore, there were no points to restore
to, I also looked in running processes and noticed there was no
explorer.exe, so I tried again to start a new process, explorer.exe, and the
screen just flashes off. I can only get into the task manager, Are there any
other commands I can start to get this going?

thanks much

Boot to Windows, press Ctrl/Alt-Delete, start the task iexplore.exe, go
to this link and run the .vbs file.

Restore Desktop Icons and Taskbar
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/xp_taskbar_desktop_fixall.vbs

 

[Just Askin']

Thanks for trying but that didn't work, I got a script error and it shut
down.

I ordered recovery disks from the mfg. thanks again