weird problem...

[Thebest]

I got an interesting problem. On my desktop, there is nothing. It's just a blank screen. No Start bar, icons, anything. Only way I can get on the internet is by Ctrl+alt+del, then going to New Task. anyone know what may be wrong? I've already tried restarting it, several times. Nothing seems to work.

 

[Bagel]

somehtign si corrupt in your "explorer" i had that issue a logn time ago..teh only way i solved it was to use the task method to back up my stuff as best i coudl on cd then do a restore

 

[lemon]

where was the task bar previously? is there couple of lines there? if so, its just been "hidden".. easily solvable by moving the mouse cursor until it shows the "resizing" arrows.. click and hold, then drag, and the start bar should show.

if you can move the start menu, then you should be able to right-click in the blank screen. if so, highlight "arrange icons by" and then click "show desktop icons"

that is, if what bagel said about the explorer.exe file, is not corrupted. or if there isnt a script running at logon...

 

[Bagel]

yeah lemon when i had that issue before i was running widows me and i spent an entie saturday trying my best to get it back ..it turned out that my explorer was currupeted apparently i picked up a nasty worm from a peer to peer program . so i had to do a system restore. i hate having to reinstall all my programs again lol

 

[lemon]

Windows 98: Using Windows 98: Checking your system files for problems

Description of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 System File Checker (Sfc.exe)

basically the same tool, if a file is corrupted, then it can be replaced (see inside articles for instructions on replacement..)

 

[ouachiski]

I had a prob with explorer one time with xp and the only thing I could do was ctrl shft esc and run explorer. I could do what I needed to but I had to reinstall to fix it.

 

[Thebest]

Technology sucks.