Where are my desktop shortcuts?

[Rock]

Hi,

I just started my XP Pro as usual and got the msn messenger panel with the
entertainment news etc., on it and a panel came up saying the script was bad
and did I want to run it anyway. This happened twice.

I now can't see any of my shortcuts as well as the task bar., just a blank XP
wallpaper of the grass.

The only way around it is by ctrl alt del to the Task manager and then opening
up the browser and choosing a program which will load okay.

As soon as I close the program though it disappears and i am left with an empty
XP wallpaper screen again.

I have checked the other uses on the box and it is fine there. The icons are on
the screen and everything is okay. It is only on my user and I am the
administrator.

Any help please?

 

[bojimbo26one]

Hi,

I just started my XP Pro as usual and got the msn messenger panel with the
entertainment news etc., on it and a panel came up saying the script was bad
and did I want to run it anyway. This happened twice.

I now can't see any of my shortcuts as well as the task bar., just a blank XP
wallpaper of the grass.

The only way around it is by ctrl alt del to the Task manager and then opening
up the browser and choosing a program which will load okay.

As soon as I close the program though it disappears and i am left with an empty
XP wallpaper screen again.

I have checked the other uses on the box and it is fine there. The icons are on
the screen and everything is okay. It is only on my user and I am the
administrator.

Any help please?

Event viewer ?

 

[Ron Badour]

Try a system restore to a date prior to the onset of the problem.

 

[pcbutts1 [MS MVP]]

Do a ctl-alt-del then click file run from the task manager and run
explorer.exe, does that bring the icons back.

 

[Rock]

Do a ctl-alt-del then click file run from the task manager and run
explorer.exe, does that bring the icons back.

Hi,

Yes that does bring then icons back and I can then proceed with most things
although it will not let me add a usb drive showing me the Rundll32.exe problem
panel which it shows every now and then when I try to initiate something.

I have noticed that as time goes on the box gets slower and in task mgr it
shows explorer at 99% CPU. I have to end it then start again.

I have also noticed some some processes that I am not used to seeing such as..

mDNSResponder.rxe
wscntfy.exe
inetinfo.exe
pwrisovm.exe

If I reboot boot, I firstly get 2 userinit.exe panel messages then the rundll32
ones.

The strange thing is that this happened on a previous hard drive so I decided
to reinstall XP on a new drive which is one I am having trouble with now.

I have only reinstalled my programs which I have had on for months if not
years. The only thing I brought ovre from the old hard drive was Firefox so I
think if this is a virus it maybe came with that.

Is there a way that I can copy over a copy of rundll32 or usernit.exe from
another computer which is also running the same version of XP without any
problems for many months now?

Thank you.

rock