No Desktop after Login 1

[Terilyn]

Hello,

Not sure where to start w/this...have the shutdown problems that so many speak of (Win98SE)...receive the error: Fatal Exception OE 0028:C000BD1D in VXD VMM(01) + 000AD1D. Pressing any key just takes me to a blank screen so I have to shut down manually. The next time I start up, it goes through scandisk (the log reports that free space was being reported incorrectly and that scandisk successfully fixed the free space count), brings up the network login prompt, loads the policies, connects to mapped drives and then that's it. I have no desktop...no start button, no icons, ziltch. Ctrl + Alt +Del shows Mdm and Runonce running but nothing else.

It used to be that I could just shut down (manually) and restart and the second time it would work, but this morning it has taken 3-4 times, then I put a Boot disk in, look at a few things (but don't actually do anything), shut down again, and then I finally get a desktop.

Any ideas on this? TIA

 

[paulovey]

Hi,

Sounds tho it could be a video driver problem. Try going to safe mode, and use the default VGA driver, and also try lowering your video acceleration.

If that does not help check out

http://techadvice.com/w98/E/Exception_errors.htm

Good Luck,

Paul

 

[Terilyn]

Paul,

Thanks for your suggestions; I'll give them a try. Thank you also for the link to the FE list, although haven't found the exact errors we've seen here!

I thought I'd use your rundll. fix, as I have several network drives mapped, but when I tried it I receive the error: Error in user.exe. Missing entry. Any idea on what this means and what to do about it? TIA

Terilyn

 

[paulovey]

Hi,

Thanks for that, have not seen that one before, you could always try running rundll.exe rather than rundll32.exe.

Or try the following that works as well.

C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 1

Paul

 

[paulovey]

Sorry,

That should read run rundll32.exe rather than rundll.exe...

Paul

(-:

 

[mventour]

Sounds like someone has been messing around with your SYSTEM.INI file. That file is where you would specify what program would be the interface (shell actually) for Windows. Open it up in DOS by typing - "[red]edit c:\windows\system.ini[/red]" and pressing enter. Substitute "c:\windows" for your windows directory, if it is different. Look for the line "shell=*whatever*". The *whatever* should be "Explorer.EXE". If it's not, then that is the reason why you're not seeing the desktop and taskbar because they are both part of (believe it or not) Windows Explorer. If the line is there, then Windows Explorer is either missing or corrupted, but it might have said so.


It's just a hunch.