In Steven L Umbach <
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Hmm... This makes me wonder if the effort to load the initial offering for
restoration might be causing it to choke. I'm actually in the process of
working on an article for the site similar to this... If the OP can
actually get the task manager to pop up via CTRL ALT DEL then the bit that
I'm working on might be a solution for 'em.
You've booted your PC and there are no icons on the desktop and all you
see is your wallpaper. The taskbar isn't showing and when you press the
Windows Logo key (WinKey) on your keyboard nothing happens. The process is
simple enough:
1.. Press CTRL + ALT + DEL
2.. Click on Task Manager if that doesn't automatically open task manager
with your setup
3.. Click on the processes tab
4.. Look for explorer.exe
5.. If it's there then right click it and select "End Process Tree" if
not then skip that step
6.. Click on File
7.. Click on New task (run)
8.. In the dialogue box type "explorer.exe" (without the quotes)
9.. Press Enter or click Okay
10.. That should bring up the desktop icons and taskbar if so then reboot
and skip Step #11
11.. If it doesn't bring up the desktop or icons repeat Steps 6 through 7
only type ""%SystemRoot%\System32\restore\rstrui.exe" without the quotes
12.. Restore to an earlier point
If, for some reason, that does not work than you will probably be
interested in the following two links:
Malware Cleaners and Repair:
http://www.kgiii.info/windows/all/general/malwarefix.html
Corrupt Profile:
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/corrupt_profile.html
And if not one bit of that does the trick for you then...
Repair Installation of XP:
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/xprepair.html
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which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply
there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." -
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