XP boots to desktop only

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chrisbcole

The other day my laptop started booting to the desktop but never
loaded the start menu or any of the other icons. I was also unable to
shut it down by any other means besides holding down the power button
till the machine immediately shut off. The other day it actually
started to shutdown successfully after some prodding and a lot of
waiting. Anybody have any ideas? I'm thinking I'm going to take it
to get the drive pulled just to make sure that I get all of what I can
backed up.

Any help would be much appreciated.

-Nystigmus
 
If you press cntrl-alt-del what happens. If you get task manager go to file>
new task (run) and type explorer.exe, then click OK see if that gives you
the start menu etc.
Neil
 
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