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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? |
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"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. |
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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? |
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"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. |
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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. |
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