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Old January 22nd 19, 09:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Bobert[_3_]
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Default Desktop Not Showing

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.

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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Old January 22nd 19, 10:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Shadow
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Default 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 ?
[]'s

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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