Icons Disappeared

**dragon2309** · 10-26-2005, 05:45 PM

Hi, a family friend is complaining about "HER ICONS HAVE DISSAPEARED", thats all the info ive got, other than shes running windows XP Pro.

Im going over there in a few hours to sort it out, im thinking that she has in-advertantly clicked on HIDE DEESKTOP ITEMS, and not realised. If there is no start bar either then im guessing that EXPLORER.exe isnt starting up properly or somethings stopping it, thus boot into safemode and checkout whats going on there.

Is there anything you guys can say that will add to my battle plan, thats all ive got really, those two things, any other ideas about what might be wrong. Just to clarify, this happens everytime she turns the comp on, so im gathering boot.ini files and most system files are still intact.

She does have AV and PF software on but she never updates so its pretty useless.

dragon2309

4W4K3 · 10-26-2005, 05:52 PM

Might help to prevent this if she's having stability/corrupt problems within the OS : http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1153/

A system restore will probably bring it all back up to speed, if she's got a pretty recent restore point you can do it from XP.

But what you said sounds right. If the taskbar is gone it's probably explorer.exe not starting correctly. Safe Mode and recovery should do the trick.

spacedude89 · 10-26-2005, 05:57 PM

http://www.computing.net/windowsme/w...rum/44619.html

might help.. ^^

**dragon2309** · 10-26-2005, 07:41 PM

Cheers guys, pretty much what i was gonna do anyway, thanks, im off there now, will report back with (hopefully) success, lol

dragon2309

10-26-2005, 05:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
dragon2309 P.I Dragon Join Date: May 2005 Location: KENT, UK Age: 19 Posts: 8,344	Icons Disappeared Hi, a family friend is complaining about "HER ICONS HAVE DISSAPEARED", thats all the info ive got, other than shes running windows XP Pro. Im going over there in a few hours to sort it out, im thinking that she has in-advertantly clicked on HIDE DEESKTOP ITEMS, and not realised. If there is no start bar either then im guessing that EXPLORER.exe isnt starting up properly or somethings stopping it, thus boot into safemode and checkout whats going on there. Is there anything you guys can say that will add to my battle plan, thats all ive got really, those two things, any other ideas about what might be wrong. Just to clarify, this happens everytime she turns the comp on, so im gathering boot.ini files and most system files are still intact. She does have AV and PF software on but she never updates so its pretty useless. dragon2309 __________________ Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 3.1Ghz - (__CPU__) eVGA 680i SLi - (__MOB__) 4Gb Corsair Dominator DDR2-800 (4x1024Mb) - (__RAM__) 250Gb Western Digital SATAII 7200rpm - (__HDD__) nVidia BFG 8800GTS OC 320Mb - (__GFX__) LG DVD+/-RW 18x DVD-RAM - (__OPT__) Triple Boot - [XP Pro] + [Vista Ultimate] + [Ubuntu 7.10] - (__OS__) [3DMARK'03 :: 25,587] --- [3DMARK'05 :: 13,989] --- [3DMARK'06 :: 8791] - (__BENCHMARKS__) dragon2309.co.uk - a little slice of geek

10-26-2005, 05:52 PM	#2 (permalink)
4W4K3 VIP Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Lewisville, TX Age: 20 Posts: 6,866	Might help to prevent this if she's having stability/corrupt problems within the OS : http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1153/ A system restore will probably bring it all back up to speed, if she's got a pretty recent restore point you can do it from XP. But what you said sounds right. If the taskbar is gone it's probably explorer.exe not starting correctly. Safe Mode and recovery should do the trick. __________________ My Computer I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe. Can I eat your brain? FOLDING FOR THE GOOD OF MANKIND :F@H Team 44358

10-26-2005, 05:57 PM	#3 (permalink)
spacedude89 Diamond Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Oregon Age: 19 Posts: 1,419	http://www.computing.net/windowsme/w...rum/44619.html might help.. ^^ __________________ Desktop: Abit AW9D-MAX ~ Core 2 Duo E6300 @ 2.4GHz ~ Radeon X1900GT Laptop: HP ~ Core Duo T2050 ~ nVidia 7600 First smiles, then lies. Last comes gunfire.

10-26-2005, 07:41 PM	#4 (permalink)
dragon2309 P.I Dragon Join Date: May 2005 Location: KENT, UK Age: 19 Posts: 8,344	Cheers guys, pretty much what i was gonna do anyway, thanks, im off there now, will report back with (hopefully) success, lol dragon2309 __________________ Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 3.1Ghz - (__CPU__) eVGA 680i SLi - (__MOB__) 4Gb Corsair Dominator DDR2-800 (4x1024Mb) - (__RAM__) 250Gb Western Digital SATAII 7200rpm - (__HDD__) nVidia BFG 8800GTS OC 320Mb - (__GFX__) LG DVD+/-RW 18x DVD-RAM - (__OPT__) Triple Boot - [XP Pro] + [Vista Ultimate] + [Ubuntu 7.10] - (__OS__) [3DMARK'03 :: 25,587] --- [3DMARK'05 :: 13,989] --- [3DMARK'06 :: 8791] - (__BENCHMARKS__) dragon2309.co.uk - a little slice of geek

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