RE: WEIRD Dell Windows XP problem...

Try using task manager to start the task EXPLORER

If that makes your desktop appear, you problem is that explorer is croaking
during startup.  Why?  Don't know.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Chuck Lewis
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:21 PM
> To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
> Subject: [PCTECH] WEIRD Dell Windows XP problem...
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> 
> 
> Got a strange one. A friend of my sons at college has an out of warranty
> Dell pc running Windows XP. You boot the thing up and saying it comes up
> is
> not quite accurate. It comes up with NOTHING on the Desktop. Just a big
> empty screen. Does the same thing in Safe mode. I can do Ctl-Alt-Del and
> get
> Task Manager and from there Applications tab shows NOTHING running. I can
> do
> a New Task and run something from a CD. I loaded Ad Aware, Spybot,
> Spyblaster, etc. and our antivirus software Sophos that way and then I can
> use the same deal (New Task) to run any of them and they come up with
> nothing. I have booted from a boot diskette and run a command line scan
> that
> finds nothing. Tried reverting back to previous config, etc.
> 
> 
> 
> She said this has happened before and she took it into a local shop and
> they
> reformatted her hard drive to "fix" the problem. She said it was OK to do
> that again but that will be the 3rd or 4th time and there has GOT to be
> something going on.
> 
> 
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> 
> 
> Chuck
> 
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