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Disappearing Icons and Taskbar
"GSV Three Minds in a Can" ] wrote in message ... Bitstring , from the wonderful person Alisha Navarro said snip I Cannot access the "start" button....task bar is part of what is missing. Basically if you imagine a large screen full of your wallpaper, that is what I have on my desktop....no icons, no task bar, no right click, no anything, just a large picture of my beautiful greyhound snoozing. I have tried to boot in safe mode and that just got me a big black screen with safe mode written in the corners (wallpaper didn't load for obvious reasons)...still no taskbar or icons. Also, my attempt to run "sfc / scannow" as you directed was not successful. Hmm, well if you have a 'real' WinXP CD (upgrade, retail, OEM, makes no difference) then you can try either the recovery console, or a 'repair' install. If however you just have a 'recovery CD' from Compaq, then that's likely to reset your PC to 'factory fresh' state (i.e. lose all your documents). (Since you mention 900 Mhz, I guess the PC maybe pre-dates WinXP, and you installed it yourself, in which case repair install looks like the best option from here. If you upgraded Win98/Me to WinXP, strange things have been known to happen sometimes. 8,) -- GSV Three Minds in a Can Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing. Bah! (thanks for your help, I am not in any way "bah"ing you) Ok, I am off to try the repair function from the XP disk...wish me luck...and if you don't hear from me, I am deep in the darkest crevices of XP hell. |
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