No icons, No Task Manager

[Guest bicyclexc]

My problem is when I boot, No icons, so start menu and no task bar appear.

Ctl-alt-del does nothing. Right clicking does nothing. I have tried a repair

instal and after the reboot the same thing occurs. I would like to try and

save the data on the HD. Im hoping explorer.exe is just messed up and can be

fixed, if so somone please tell me how to do it. Safe mode also has some

result, no icons, right click, etc.

 

all in all a bad situation.

[Guest bicyclexc]

RE: No icons, No Task Manager

 

my computer is a dell inspiron 5100 and I have the XP disk.

 

the sentance "My problem is when I boot, No icons, so start menu and no task

bar appear. "

 

should be

 

"My problem is when I boot, No icons, NO start menu and no task bar appear. "

[Guest Jake]

RE: No icons, No Task Manager

 

Instead of pressing ctrl+alt+del try ctrl+shift+esc and if that works just

run explorer.exe not sure if it will but I guess it's worth a try

[Guest Jake]

RE: No icons, No Task Manager

 

Oh and I also had that same problem once and it was Internet Explorer 7

causing the problem

[Guest bicyclexc]

RE: No icons, No Task Manager

 

 

ctl-shift-esc doesnt do anything. It cannot me Internet explorer7 cause i

never downloaded it. Any other thoughts?

 

 

"Jake" wrote:

> Oh and I also had that same problem once and it was Internet Explorer 7

> causing the problem

[Guest Jake]

RE: No icons, No Task Manager

 

 

 

"bicyclexc" wrote:

>

> ctl-shift-esc doesnt do anything. It cannot me Internet explorer7 cause i

> never downloaded it. Any other thoughts?

>

>

 

No idea then, sorry about that. Google doesn't return much?

[Guest Lem]

Re: No icons, No Task Manager

 

bicyclexc wrote:

> My problem is when I boot, No icons, so start menu and no task bar appear.

> Ctl-alt-del does nothing. Right clicking does nothing. I have tried a repair

> instal and after the reboot the same thing occurs. I would like to try and

> save the data on the HD. Im hoping explorer.exe is just messed up and can be

> fixed, if so somone please tell me how to do it. Safe mode also has some

> result, no icons, right click, etc.

>

> all in all a bad situation.

 

Can you boot into Safe Mode (repeatedly tap F8 starting right after the

POST "beep")?

 

--

Lem -- MS-MVP

 

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

[Guest bicyclexc]

Re: No icons, No Task Manager

 

Safe mode also has some result, no icons, right click, etc. Just the four

little "safe mode" stamps in the corners to try and comfort me.

 

"Lem" wrote:

> bicyclexc wrote:

> > My problem is when I boot, No icons, so start menu and no task bar appear.

> > Ctl-alt-del does nothing. Right clicking does nothing. I have tried a repair

> > instal and after the reboot the same thing occurs. I would like to try and

> > save the data on the HD. Im hoping explorer.exe is just messed up and can be

> > fixed, if so somone please tell me how to do it. Safe mode also has some

> > result, no icons, right click, etc.

> >

> > all in all a bad situation.

>

> Can you boot into Safe Mode (repeatedly tap F8 starting right after the

> POST "beep")?

>

> --

> Lem -- MS-MVP

>

> To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

> http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

>

[Guest Lem]

Re: No icons, No Task Manager

 

bicyclexc wrote:

> Safe mode also has some result, no icons, right click, etc. Just the four

> little "safe mode" stamps in the corners to try and comfort me.

>

> "Lem" wrote:

>

>> bicyclexc wrote:

>>> My problem is when I boot, No icons, so start menu and no task bar appear.

>>> Ctl-alt-del does nothing. Right clicking does nothing. I have tried a repair

>>> instal and after the reboot the same thing occurs. I would like to try and

>>> save the data on the HD. Im hoping explorer.exe is just messed up and can be

>>> fixed, if so somone please tell me how to do it. Safe mode also has some

>>> result, no icons, right click, etc.

>>>

>>> all in all a bad situation.

>> Can you boot into Safe Mode (repeatedly tap F8 starting right after the

>> POST "beep")?

>>

>> --

>> Lem -- MS-MVP

>>

>> To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.

>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

>> http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

>>

 

What happened just before this state of affairs began?

 

When you tried to go into Safe Mode, did you see the menu for "Safe

Mode," "Safe Mode with Networking," with Command Prompt," etc.? I

assume so, if you ended up at a screen with "Safe Mode" in the corners.

 

You said you tried a Repair Install. What steps exactly did you do

before you re-booted (only to get the same blank screen)?

 

If it's not a hardware problem, you may want to save the data on the

hard drive and do a clean reinstall of Windows (you would have to

reinstall all of your applications from CDs or saved install downloads).

Two ways to do that is to install the current hard drive as a slave in

a working XP box or to boot using a CD Linux distro like Knoppix.

http://www.knoppix.net/

 

Or it may just be easier to take your computer to your friendly

neighborhood computer repair professional (not your version of BigBoxUSA

or GeekSquad).

 

 

--

Lem -- MS-MVP

 

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

[Guest bicyclexc]

Re: No icons, No Task Manager

 

My state of affairs were normal.

 

Yes I saw the whole array of safe mode options. trying them all, none

results in any more then the blank page.

 

I then followed the steps for a repair install- it loaded and saved the

files. Then it said, windows must reboot.... rebooted no problem. Letting it

do its thing like im supposed to it did not reboot from the xp cd. Then

instead of booting from the saved files......another blank home screen.

 

 

I used the repair install with command prompt and tried to rebuild the

bootsetup file, to no avail.

 

I thank you for your time kind sir, hopefully somthing will come about

involving an answer.

 

Most of the accounts I found on the internet involve hardware or drivers,

not mine because I didnt change a thing prior to the problem. In addition,

trying to go back to a restore point cant work, cause I cant get to it.

 

Thanks again. let e know what you may think as i search for computer repair

in maryland...