No Desktop on Vista startup

[Guest]

I had installed XP after Vista and had to do the repair for the Vista drive
to be recognized. When I start the "recovered" Vista, I get a short Welcome
screen, then it says "Preparing Desktop". After about 2 minutes, I get a blue
screen. I can bring uo Task Manager, so I know it is running, but no icons or
desktop is displayed?
Any ideas???

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

And from Task Manager, if you click 'new task', type explorer.exe and click
ok, does the desktop appear?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Guest]

Hi,

And from Task Manager, if you click 'new task', type explorer.exe and click
ok, does the desktop appear?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Guest]

Hi Rick,

Just got this same problem and read this and that worked for me.
How do i fix this problem now that I know I need to run explorer.exe?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Run regedit from the start/search box, go to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Locate the "shell" string in the right pane and double click it. Replace the
value data with just "explorer.exe" (without the quotes)

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Guest]

Didnt make any difference whatsoever :/

any other ideas?

 

[Guest]

Here's some other solutions me and my friend have run through and havent
worked:
Also instead of running the process explorer.exe, at startup, it literally
runs explorer.exe and just boots up an explorer window (so like if you right
clicked the start button and went to explore, and it puts you at C:\)


Checked Windows Defender isnt blocking it
It works fine if i create another user and use that account, but if I go
down into appdata I cant find any obvious differences
UAC is off
ran SFC and everything is fine
went to msconfig
-under general normal startup is selected
-under boot No GUI boot is NOT selected
-went to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon and checked the Shell key again, says
explorer.exe, whereas previously before reading this thread it said
Explorer.exe C:\WINDOWS\Config\lsass.exe, which makes no difference to startup
Safe mode gives the same result
ran AVG and Spy Cleaner gold and came up with nothing

So any more options?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

It indicates something is interfering with the initialization of the
explorer shell. One thing to look at, oddly enough, are IE plugins/addons as
some of these affect shared library files (IE and explorer use many of the
same files). In the control panel/internet options/programs tab, click the
button the manage them and disable those that load with IE.

Another thing to try is disabling your antivirus software as a temporary
measure, as a bad update in some has been shown to do this.

By the by, you should not disable UAC. Properly built programs expect it to
be there, and some do not respond properly when it is disabled.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com