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No icons on bootup
I am having a problem getting my screen icons to come up after a reboot. I
am running XP SP3 with all updates on a Dell quad core processor and 4 gb. Everything works fine. I can run applications by going to Task manager selecting new task and finding the program I want to run. I have tried stopping explorer.exe and running it again but it doesn't help. If I boot up in safe mode all the icons are there. Can someone tell me how to fix this? Thanks, Rick |
No icons on bootup
From: "Rick Morrison"
I am having a problem getting my screen icons to come up after a reboot. I am running XP SP3 with all updates on a Dell quad core processor and 4 gb. Everything works fine. I can run applications by going to Task manager selecting new task and finding the program I want to run. I have tried stopping explorer.exe and running it again but it doesn't help. If I boot up in safe mode all the icons are there. Can someone tell me how to fix this? Thanks, Rick In Normal Mode hit "Ctl+Alt+Del" That'll bring up Task Manager. File -- New task (Run)... Enter; explorer.exe Does the Desktop now appear ? -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
No icons on bootup
No, I tried that but it didn't work
"David H. Lipman" wrote in message ... From: "Rick Morrison" I am having a problem getting my screen icons to come up after a reboot. I am running XP SP3 with all updates on a Dell quad core processor and 4 gb. Everything works fine. I can run applications by going to Task manager selecting new task and finding the program I want to run. I have tried stopping explorer.exe and running it again but it doesn't help. If I boot up in safe mode all the icons are there. Can someone tell me how to fix this? Thanks, Rick In Normal Mode hit "Ctl+Alt+Del" That'll bring up Task Manager. File -- New task (Run)... Enter; explorer.exe Does the Desktop now appear ? -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
No icons on bootup
From: "Radiorick"
No, I tried that but it didn't work In Safe Mode can you create a new account go back into Normal Mode and logon with that account ? -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
No icons on bootup
Rick Morrison wrote:
I am having a problem getting my screen icons to come up after a reboot. I am running XP SP3 with all updates on a Dell quad core processor and 4 gb. Everything works fine. I can run applications by going to Task manager selecting new task and finding the program I want to run. I have tried stopping explorer.exe and running it again but it doesn't help. If I boot up in safe mode all the icons are there. Can someone tell me how to fix this? Thanks, Rick Safe Mode eliminates the load of many startup program. Looks like you installed some program that causes the interference on displaying the desktop, like some theme manager, Fences, or something that manipulates the desktop. Once you're at the desktop (blank or not) and whether you used Safe Mode or normal mode with Task Manager to run programs, run msconfig.exe which lets you disable all startup items. In its General tab, elect the "Selective Startup" mode. Disable the "Load Startup Items" option. That's a bit quicker than going to the Startup tab and deselecting all those startup items. Reboot. Now see if you get your desktop with its icons when you boot into Windows normal mode. |
No icons on bootup
Rick Morrison wrote:
I am having a problem getting my screen icons to come up after a reboot. I am running XP SP3 with all updates on a Dell quad core processor and 4 gb. Everything works fine. I can run applications by going to Task manager selecting new task and finding the program I want to run. I have tried stopping explorer.exe and running it again but it doesn't help. If I boot up in safe mode all the icons are there. Can someone tell me how to fix this? Thanks, Rick Some malware does that. Have you run Malwarebytes? |
No icons on bootup
Yes, I added another user account and when I log into it I get icons and a
task bar. Now what? "David H. Lipman" wrote in message ... From: "Radiorick" No, I tried that but it didn't work In Safe Mode can you create a new account go back into Normal Mode and logon with that account ? -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
No icons on bootup
I tried that but it still didn't work.
"VanguardLH" wrote in message ... Rick Morrison wrote: I am having a problem getting my screen icons to come up after a reboot. I am running XP SP3 with all updates on a Dell quad core processor and 4 gb. Everything works fine. I can run applications by going to Task manager selecting new task and finding the program I want to run. I have tried stopping explorer.exe and running it again but it doesn't help. If I boot up in safe mode all the icons are there. Can someone tell me how to fix this? Thanks, Rick Safe Mode eliminates the load of many startup program. Looks like you installed some program that causes the interference on displaying the desktop, like some theme manager, Fences, or something that manipulates the desktop. Once you're at the desktop (blank or not) and whether you used Safe Mode or normal mode with Task Manager to run programs, run msconfig.exe which lets you disable all startup items. In its General tab, elect the "Selective Startup" mode. Disable the "Load Startup Items" option. That's a bit quicker than going to the Startup tab and deselecting all those startup items. Reboot. Now see if you get your desktop with its icons when you boot into Windows normal mode. |
No icons on bootup
"Rick Morrison" wrote in message
... I am having a problem getting my screen icons to come up after a reboot. I am running XP SP3 with all updates on a Dell quad core processor and 4 gb. Everything works fine. I can run applications by going to Task manager selecting new task and finding the program I want to run. I have tried stopping explorer.exe and running it again but it doesn't help. If I boot up in safe mode all the icons are there. Can someone tell me how to fix this? Thanks, Rick http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330170 Ben |
No icons on bootup
In message , Radiorick
writes: I tried that but it still didn't work. "VanguardLH" wrote in message ... Rick Morrison wrote: I am having a problem getting my screen icons to come up after a reboot. [] Safe Mode eliminates the load of many startup program. Looks like you installed some program that causes the interference on displaying the desktop, like some theme manager, Fences, or something that manipulates the desktop. Once you're at the desktop (blank or not) and whether you used Safe Mode [] That was my first thought too - that you've at some time installed (or it's a Dell utility that came with the machine) some desktop manipulator that has, as an option, the hiding of all desktop icons, and you've somehow turned that option on. Are your icons - which are basically shortcuts, or should be (keeping actual files on the desktop isn't that good an idea) - still there in something like c:\Documents and Settings\me\Desktop? My second thought was that you've somehow moved them off screen; I'm not sure if that's possible, but if it is: does typing the initial letter of one of them, then pressing enter, cause the relevant application to open? Also, does switching to a lower resolution make them appear? As another has suggested, Malware could be involved too. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900) |
No icons on bootup
Note: Once bottom- or top-posting style has been established, keep your
replies in that order or rearrange all the quoted content to match your choice of posting style; else, your replies end up generating jumbled mess of top- and bottom-posted replies. Radiorick wrote: "VanguardLH" wrote ... Rick Morrison wrote: I am having a problem getting my screen icons to come up after a reboot. I am running XP SP3 with all updates on a Dell quad core processor and 4 gb. Everything works fine. I can run applications by going to Task manager selecting new task and finding the program I want to run. I have tried stopping explorer.exe and running it again but it doesn't help. If I boot up in safe mode all the icons are there. Can someone tell me how to fix this? Safe Mode eliminates the load of many startup program. Looks like you installed some program that causes the interference on displaying the desktop, like some theme manager, Fences, or something that manipulates the desktop. Once you're at the desktop (blank or not) and whether you used Safe Mode or normal mode with Task Manager to run programs, run msconfig.exe which lets you disable all startup items. In its General tab, elect the "Selective Startup" mode. Disable the "Load Startup Items" option. That's a bit quicker than going to the Startup tab and deselecting all those startup items. Reboot. Now see if you get your desktop with its icons when you boot into Windows normal mode. I tried that but it still didn't work. msconfig.exe is just the first startup manager to use. It covers only some of the locations for startup entries. The next would be to use SysInternals' AutoRuns which shows more startup locations. Some programs, including malware, doesn't install into the typical startup locations. They use the more hidden ones, like Winlogon events and startup script for the Windows account. When you boot into Windows safe mode and all the desktop icons are there, what is the screen resolution? When you then boot into Windows normal mode, are you at the same resolution? How are you arranging icons on the desktop? Are they in a fixed position or does Windows get to auto-arrange them? Right-click on the desktop, "Arrange icons by" submenu, and, for now, select auto-arrange mode so Windows will position the icons in top-down, left-to-right order within the size of the desktop. Just how many desktops are we talking about here? Just a few that run down the left-side of the screen? If so, have you checked the size of the screen using the controls on your monitor? Safe mode is probably using a lesser screen resolution than in normal mode. That means a different sync rate and your monitor might be correctly sizing the screen to fit inside the monitor's display area. At the different screen resolution in Windows normal mode, maybe the screen is larger than the monitor's displayable area. So shrink the width and height of the monitor's screen using the monitor's own sizing controls to see if you can see the edges of the Windows screen. You might not see the edge of the Windows screen if you made black its desktop background. You never said your computer ever did work in normal mode. You just stated the problem without mentioning history. So, did you computer work before? If so, for how how long? If it was working before, what did you change right before your computer stopped working? Did you clean the registry? Did you install a new video driver? What software did you install? Did you run a tweaker? By the way, is Windows even configured to show the desktop icons? Right-click on a blank area of the desktop to show its context menu. Look under the "Arrange icons by" submenu. Is the "Show desktop icons" selection enabled (shows a checkmark next to it)? |
No icons on bootup
From: "Radiorick"
Yes, I added another user account and when I log into it I get icons and a task bar. Now what? Describe what you do see and what you do get when you logon to the problemsome account. For example when I described the trick to run explorer, all you stated was "No, I tried that but it didn't work". That's not good enough. When you do boot into Normal Mode what do you see ? For expmple do you see the Task Bar and System Tray ? In Normal Mode when you hit "Ctl+Alt+Del", did Task Manager start ? If Task Manager did execute and you went to; File -- New task (Run)... And entered; explorer.exe What exactly happened ? You have to be more explanatory in your answers as we can't see over your shoulders and you have to give us more to go on than "no that didn't work". -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
No icons on bootup
OK . . . when I log into the account windows boots up and I get my normal
background screen but no icons or taskbar. If I right click the mouse nothing happens. CTRL-ALT-DELETE brings up the task manager. If I got to my startup folder and click on the applications there all start up and run fine - just no icons on the screen. When i tried to run explorer.exe I got the hourglass for about two seconds but nothing else happened. Also I should note that I'm running two monitors on this system using a GeForce GT-610 video card. Oddly enough, when I went to bed last night I left the system running with a couple applications running. This morning the applications were still running and I had all the icons on the screen. I don't think it rebooted overnight since the applications were still running. "David H. Lipman" wrote in message ... From: "Radiorick" Yes, I added another user account and when I log into it I get icons and a task bar. Now what? Describe what you do see and what you do get when you logon to the problemsome account. For example when I described the trick to run explorer, all you stated was "No, I tried that but it didn't work". That's not good enough. When you do boot into Normal Mode what do you see ? For expmple do you see the Task Bar and System Tray ? In Normal Mode when you hit "Ctl+Alt+Del", did Task Manager start ? If Task Manager did execute and you went to; File -- New task (Run)... And entered; explorer.exe What exactly happened ? You have to be more explanatory in your answers as we can't see over your shoulders and you have to give us more to go on than "no that didn't work". -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
No icons on bootup
From: "Radiorick"
OK . . . when I log into the account windows boots up and I get my normal background screen but no icons or taskbar. If I right click the mouse nothing happens. CTRL-ALT-DELETE brings up the task manager. If I got to my startup folder and click on the applications there all start up and run fine - just no icons on the screen. When i tried to run explorer.exe I got the hourglass for about two seconds but nothing else happened. Also I should note that I'm running two monitors on this system using a GeForce GT-610 video card. Oddly enough, when I went to bed last night I left the system running with a couple applications running. This morning the applications were still running and I had all the icons on the screen. I don't think it rebooted overnight since the applications were still running. Thank you. Physically disconnect the second monitor. Reboot and logon to the account again and describe what yolu see. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
No icons on bootup
Before I shut down to disconnect the 2nd monitor I closed all applications
and did a restart with both monitors still connected. When I logged into the problem account I got the background screen with no icons but within a few minutes all icons appeared and everything was normal. I then shut down again and disconnected the 2nd monitor and powered up with the same result (all icons appeared within a few minutes). Also you asked what happened when I tried to run explorer.exe. After running it I looked in the processes tab and found two instances of explorer. Each time I tried again another entry showed up in the processes tab. When everything is working explorer shows a memory usage around 168,400k When I have no icons it shows around16k. I don't know it that means anything or not. This problem has occurred before and then it seems to magically fix itself. Each time I do a reboot I hold my breath while waiting to see if I'll have icons. I've had the dual monitor setup for quite some time and it has worked very well. "David H. Lipman" wrote in message ... From: "Radiorick" OK . . . when I log into the account windows boots up and I get my normal background screen but no icons or taskbar. If I right click the mouse nothing happens. CTRL-ALT-DELETE brings up the task manager. If I got to my startup folder and click on the applications there all start up and run fine - just no icons on the screen. When i tried to run explorer.exe I got the hourglass for about two seconds but nothing else happened. Also I should note that I'm running two monitors on this system using a GeForce GT-610 video card. Oddly enough, when I went to bed last night I left the system running with a couple applications running. This morning the applications were still running and I had all the icons on the screen. I don't think it rebooted overnight since the applications were still running. Thank you. Physically disconnect the second monitor. Reboot and logon to the account again and describe what yolu see. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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