xp reinstall or repair or whatever

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About a week ago I lost most of my desktop icons, don't remember what i was
doing. i tried restore to a previous day. that didn't work.. I'm kind of lost.
the symtoms are: lost email folder; help and support doesn't seem to work;
when i boot up there is no windows start sound. when i check sounds and audio
devices i get an message like cannot fine %system root%media file.. I'm
running xp pro with sp2.. any suggestions would be appreciated.
 
You can,in cmd run:Sfc /Scannow Then after,or before,create a new
user account,after Sfc runs,reboot,open in new account,if all is ok then
old account is corrupted,delete it..
 
I retired from desktop support at the Boeing company. My experience,
therefore, maybe dated but for what it's worth. In Windows 98 going into
Safe Mode would reset all your desktop icons.

Hey it's worth a try.

Good Luck

Don
 
In XP it may be as simple as right clicking on the desktop, selecting
properties, click on desktop tab, select customize desktop and then check
all four boxes at the top. If that doesn't work download tweakui, there are
selections in there to fix this problem.
 
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