Desktop missing! 3

[tazzzkitty]

Yesterday, when I turned on my computer, I had no desktop. No icons, no taskbar, and could not right click. I could only get to things through task manager. But then it seems like everything works fine when I get to it.

I have Windows XP and it was updated. I changed no options that I can recall. Not in themes or anything. I had no restore points to use and I did virus scans that caught nothing.

Eventually, I decided to try to reinstall Windows XP. When it was finished reinstalling, it came up fine, and the desktop was there. But it was VERY slow, so I decided to reboot. Then it came up with no desktop AGAIN.

I still could find nothing wrong and I have since reinstalled one more time and the same thing happened. The first time it came up with the desktop, but then after restarting, no desktop.

Also, if I click on the start menu/taskbar options icon in Control Panel, it won't even open.

Other things I've tried:

Restarting in safe mode: I had a desktop. All options I checked while there, seemed normal.

clicking explorer.exe in the windows folder: it looked like it was trying to run, but then quit.

Chkdisc found no errors

Any suggestions you may have would be appreciated! Thanx.

 

[cb49747]

I have looked at the event viewer nothing there. Nothing seems be hanging or not starting. when I look at the task manager the cpu is at 1% during this hang.

 

[linney]

Well if all else fails, there is this, hopefully you wont need it.

You could try repairing windows by running it over itself. You will lose all your windows updates but your files will be untouched.

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP (Q315341)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q315/3/41.asp

 

[cb49747]

OK thanks