Desktop Not Showing
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:46:46 -0800, Bobert
wrote:
This is all new and I have neither added nor removed apps.
Win XP Pro. Boots up.
Desktop is totally vacant.
A service that shows a windows shows and runs properly.
The small microphone toolbar shows then goes away.
Glary window opens and asks if I want to upgrade. I click to close this.
ProcessExplorer (sysinternals) programmed to start but not seen.
Desktop is totally vacant.
No Start menu.
Desktop Right-Click does nothing.
Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up ProcessExplorer visible and running.
In ProcessExplorer I do a RunAs Explorer.exe an nothing happens.
In ProcessExplorer I do a RunAs MSCONFIG and MSCONFIG opens.
I fiddle in MSCONFIG and the desktop appears with icons.
What did you do in MSConfig ? "Fiddling" is rather vague .....
If everything works, it's probably some startup like
"C:\WINDOWS\System32\Userinit.exe", that was disabled. Your system
files and personal preferences seem to be intact.
Do you have a backup of your registry ?
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That is about as far as i went, being exasperated at this point.
What's up ????
Suggestions please. I do have a Macrium boot disk and image (not clone)
backup before all this started but rather fix without reinstall.
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