XPproNot Loading explorer thus no menu or start bar...

[carpetbelly]

On a thinkpadT41... Running XPPro (bosses laptop basically). Tried running chkdsk from the command prompt which is saying there's an error but not fixing it.

Tried just loading up explorer from DOS and task manager and neither will do it. Dos says program is too large to fit into memory where as from task manager it seems to be running it and crashing it straight away.

Any ideas from anyone?

 

[captaincrunch00]

You tried to run chkdisk from the command prompt? Hrmm, that's not the way I'd try it at all.

Dbl click My Computer, right click the C: drive and go to properties.
Click the Tools tab, then hit "check now" under the "check for errors" section. Check off the two boxes, and hit Start.
It will say "I cant do this right now because I dont have full access to the drive. Do it on restart?" which you should say 'Yes' to, then reboot.
Let it check the disk for 30 minutes when it boots up.

Let me know what this does!

 

[carpetbelly]

oops, should have really said desktop is fully locked down so there's no my computer and it's been so long since I have actually used dos it took me a while to even remember how to change directories etc hehe! oops!

 

[captaincrunch00]

Okay, if there is no 'My Computer' just right click on the Start button and go to Explorer, then right click on the C: drive there and do the steps I listed.

How are you getting to a dos prompt? Why would you let people into a dos prompt and not let them into my computer or explorer?

 

[carpetbelly]

there is no explorer... not internet explorer, it's the basic graphical interface for xp.

Using task manager and start new program there. Banks for you, they lock down the desktop, control panel, cmd but not command (need it for the network scripting hehe) but not grpedit.msc lol. Makes you laugh really.

Oh well, cheers for the suggestion and from what I have read up it needs the xp cd to repair it and the IT support guys would throw a wobbler if I used mine so had to send it off to them.

Tough to the boss then lol oops

cheers for trying though.