Alisha Navarro
April 12th 03, 01:10 AM
"GSV Three Minds in a Can" ]> wrote in message
...
> Bitstring >, from the wonderful person
> Alisha Navarro > said
> <snip>
> >I Cannot access the "start" button....task bar is part of what is
missing.
> >Basically if you imagine a large screen full of your wallpaper, that is
what
> >I have on my desktop....no icons, no task bar, no right click, no
anything,
> >just a large picture of my beautiful greyhound snoozing.
> >
> >I have tried to boot in safe mode and that just got me a big black screen
> >with safe mode written in the corners (wallpaper didn't load for obvious
> >reasons)...still no taskbar or icons. Also, my attempt to run "sfc /
> >scannow" as you directed was not successful.
>
> Hmm, well if you have a 'real' WinXP CD (upgrade, retail, OEM, makes no
> difference) then you can try either the recovery console, or a 'repair'
> install. If however you just have a 'recovery CD' from Compaq, then
> that's likely to reset your PC to 'factory fresh' state (i.e. lose all
> your documents).
>
> (Since you mention 900 Mhz, I guess the PC maybe pre-dates WinXP, and
> you installed it yourself, in which case repair install looks like the
> best option from here. If you upgraded Win98/Me to WinXP, strange things
> have been known to happen sometimes. 8<,)
>
> --
> GSV Three Minds in a Can
> Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing.
Bah!
(thanks for your help, I am not in any way "bah"ing you)
Ok, I am off to try the repair function from the XP disk...wish me
luck...and if you don't hear from me, I am deep in the darkest crevices of
XP hell.
...
> Bitstring >, from the wonderful person
> Alisha Navarro > said
> <snip>
> >I Cannot access the "start" button....task bar is part of what is
missing.
> >Basically if you imagine a large screen full of your wallpaper, that is
what
> >I have on my desktop....no icons, no task bar, no right click, no
anything,
> >just a large picture of my beautiful greyhound snoozing.
> >
> >I have tried to boot in safe mode and that just got me a big black screen
> >with safe mode written in the corners (wallpaper didn't load for obvious
> >reasons)...still no taskbar or icons. Also, my attempt to run "sfc /
> >scannow" as you directed was not successful.
>
> Hmm, well if you have a 'real' WinXP CD (upgrade, retail, OEM, makes no
> difference) then you can try either the recovery console, or a 'repair'
> install. If however you just have a 'recovery CD' from Compaq, then
> that's likely to reset your PC to 'factory fresh' state (i.e. lose all
> your documents).
>
> (Since you mention 900 Mhz, I guess the PC maybe pre-dates WinXP, and
> you installed it yourself, in which case repair install looks like the
> best option from here. If you upgraded Win98/Me to WinXP, strange things
> have been known to happen sometimes. 8<,)
>
> --
> GSV Three Minds in a Can
> Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing.
Bah!
(thanks for your help, I am not in any way "bah"ing you)
Ok, I am off to try the repair function from the XP disk...wish me
luck...and if you don't hear from me, I am deep in the darkest crevices of
XP hell.