lost all icons....

just did a windows xp update. once completed i rebooted the system.
now it takes 3 times longer to boot up..
once it has booted up it takes 5 times longer at the user logon screen...
once the user screen has passed all i get is my background mpicture...
no icons or ttoolbars in sight...
what have i done?

"lee" wrote:

just did a windows xp update. once completed i rebooted the system.
now it takes 3 times longer to boot up..
once it has booted up it takes 5 times longer at the user logon screen...
once the user screen has passed all i get is my background mpicture...
no icons or ttoolbars in sight...
what have i done?

Since no one else has givin an answer what I would do is reboot in safe mode
and do a system restore.

Do you know what updates you installed?

Another MVP tells me this can often be due to a corrupt user profile, and that
generally, this cannot be recovered. In that case the easiest solution is to logon
as administrator and create a new profile, then copy the old one into it, per the
instructions he

How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151

Try logging on using the Administrator account (in Safe Mode), then run Hijack This
and post back with the resultant log file. Actually, it would be best if you posted
the log in a spyware forum, but post here to see if that is even involved.

Download, unzip, and run Hijack This from one of these locations:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...HijackThis.exe
Unzip to a folder *other than* your Desktop or the Temp folder, double-click
HijackThis.exe, and hit "Scan".

When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a "Save Log"
button.
Press that, save the log somewhere you can find it (Desktop, My Documents, or
similar).
Most of what it lists will be harmless or even required, so do NOT fix anything yet.

Copy the log files and paste them into a new post at ONE of these forums:
http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/,
http://castlecops.com/forum67.html
In your post, please state your problem clearly and what you've done so far to fix
it.

The folks there will tell you what to remove.

See the "housekeeping" they ask you to complete before you post your log:
http://aumha.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4075

A tutorial for using Hijack This is located he
http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx


"lee" wrote in message
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just did a windows xp update. once completed i rebooted the system.
now it takes 3 times longer to boot up..
once it has booted up it takes 5 times longer at the user logon screen...
once the user screen has passed all i get is my background mpicture...
no icons or ttoolbars in sight...
what have i done?

"glee" wrote:

Do you know what updates you installed?

Another MVP tells me this can often be due to a corrupt user profile, and that
generally, this cannot be recovered. In that case the easiest solution is to logon
as administrator and create a new profile, then copy the old one into it, per the
instructions he

How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151

Try logging on using the Administrator account (in Safe Mode), then run Hijack This
and post back with the resultant log file. Actually, it would be best if you posted
the log in a spyware forum, but post here to see if that is even involved.

Download, unzip, and run Hijack This from one of these locations:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...HijackThis.exe
Unzip to a folder *other than* your Desktop or the Temp folder, double-click
HijackThis.exe, and hit "Scan".

When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a "Save Log"
button.
Press that, save the log somewhere you can find it (Desktop, My Documents, or
similar).
Most of what it lists will be harmless or even required, so do NOT fix anything yet.

Copy the log files and paste them into a new post at ONE of these forums:
http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/,
http://castlecops.com/forum67.html
In your post, please state your problem clearly and what you've done so far to fix
it.

The folks there will tell you what to remove.

See the "housekeeping" they ask you to complete before you post your log:
http://aumha.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4075

A tutorial for using Hijack This is located he
http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx


"lee" wrote in message
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just did a windows xp update. once completed i rebooted the system.
now it takes 3 times longer to boot up..
once it has booted up it takes 5 times longer at the user logon screen...
once the user screen has passed all i get is my background mpicture...
no icons or ttoolbars in sight...
what have i done?



You may be right but two days ago I had a blue screen of death with an error
code of 0x000000D1: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Which left my desktop with no icons and no taskbar at reboot. A simple boot
into safe mode and uninstalling the offending DVD writer via device mgr. and
a reinstall of the drive seems to have solved the problem. So their is more
than one reason for this symptom.

Well, sure, there can be more than one reason to get the problem. I am just citing
one or two of them. In fact, if the OP did a driver update from WU, they could have
a very similar issue to what you saw.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx

"MAP" wrote in message
...


"glee" wrote:

Do you know what updates you installed?

Another MVP tells me this can often be due to a corrupt user profile, and that
generally, this cannot be recovered. In that case the easiest solution is to
logon
as administrator and create a new profile, then copy the old one into it, per
the
instructions he

How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151

Try logging on using the Administrator account (in Safe Mode), then run Hijack
This
and post back with the resultant log file. Actually, it would be best if you
posted
the log in a spyware forum, but post here to see if that is even involved.

Download, unzip, and run Hijack This from one of these locations:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...HijackThis.exe
Unzip to a folder *other than* your Desktop or the Temp folder, double-click
HijackThis.exe, and hit "Scan".

When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a "Save Log"
button.
Press that, save the log somewhere you can find it (Desktop, My Documents, or
similar).
Most of what it lists will be harmless or even required, so do NOT fix anything
yet.

Copy the log files and paste them into a new post at ONE of these forums:
http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/,
http://castlecops.com/forum67.html
In your post, please state your problem clearly and what you've done so far to
fix
it.

The folks there will tell you what to remove.

See the "housekeeping" they ask you to complete before you post your log:
http://aumha.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4075

A tutorial for using Hijack This is located he
http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx


"lee" wrote in message
...
just did a windows xp update. once completed i rebooted the system.
now it takes 3 times longer to boot up..
once it has booted up it takes 5 times longer at the user logon screen...
once the user screen has passed all i get is my background mpicture...
no icons or ttoolbars in sight...
what have i done?



You may be right but two days ago I had a blue screen of death with an error
code of 0x000000D1: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Which left my desktop with no icons and no taskbar at reboot. A simple boot
into safe mode and uninstalling the offending DVD writer via device mgr. and
a reinstall of the drive seems to have solved the problem. So their is more
than one reason for this symptom.