waterinthefuel
New Member
My computer fixed itself for now, but I don't trust it. Here is what happened:
As you may remember I was having problems with my computer freezing. Well it solved itself for a couple of months. Today the problem returned. Thinking it could be a service causing it, I selectively unchecked a few services that I didn't think it needed. Well, when I restarted the machine my icons wouldn't come up. I could do NOTHING. I did a system recovery using the XP cd so I didn't lose anything, believe it or not. Well, I did have my icons in safe mode. I tried a few things and nothing happened. On MSCONFIG I told it to not use ANY services and viola, it came up with my icons. Nothing would work though. No internet, no nothing. So I decided to check the "use system services" box and leave the "startup group items" box unchecked. Rebooted the machine and it's working beautifully. But what happened? Why did my icons disappear for 2 hours through multiple reboots and make me sweat bullets? What did I do to make it do this? BTW, I'm running XP SP 2 I think. I was about to call it a night, in fact my eyes were closing waiting for it to reboot and then all of a sudden my icons came back for no reason!
Anyone have any ideas why my computer took away my icons? And.....if it happens again, what's an easy way to get them back that doesn't involve a 60 minute XP restoration? Thanks for any help you guys can give me!!
As you may remember I was having problems with my computer freezing. Well it solved itself for a couple of months. Today the problem returned. Thinking it could be a service causing it, I selectively unchecked a few services that I didn't think it needed. Well, when I restarted the machine my icons wouldn't come up. I could do NOTHING. I did a system recovery using the XP cd so I didn't lose anything, believe it or not. Well, I did have my icons in safe mode. I tried a few things and nothing happened. On MSCONFIG I told it to not use ANY services and viola, it came up with my icons. Nothing would work though. No internet, no nothing. So I decided to check the "use system services" box and leave the "startup group items" box unchecked. Rebooted the machine and it's working beautifully. But what happened? Why did my icons disappear for 2 hours through multiple reboots and make me sweat bullets? What did I do to make it do this? BTW, I'm running XP SP 2 I think. I was about to call it a night, in fact my eyes were closing waiting for it to reboot and then all of a sudden my icons came back for no reason!
Anyone have any ideas why my computer took away my icons? And.....if it happens again, what's an easy way to get them back that doesn't involve a 60 minute XP restoration? Thanks for any help you guys can give me!!
