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Booth, Didn't even think to try that, I was so happy that I could get Task Manager and run stuff :-) I will give that a try tonight. Thanks, Chuck -----Original Message----- From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 2:41 PM To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [PCTECH] WEIRD Dell Windows XP problem... can you right click on the desktop? can you use the alt-keys? (alt-f4 displays the shutdown dialog box for example?) --------------------------------- Booth Martin http://www.martinvt.com --------------------------------- -------Original Message------- From: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users Date: 01/12/05 13:11:30 To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users' Subject: RE: [PCTECH] WEIRD Dell Windows XP problem... Mike, It doesn't hang. For all intents and purposes it comes completely up except NOTHING on the screen. I mean absolutely NOTHING but the background color. No icons, no task bar, no Start button, etc. Thanks, Chuck -----Original Message----- From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Wills Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:39 PM To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users Subject: Re: [PCTECH] WEIRD Dell Windows XP problem... Does she have any drive mappings? I have had problems where if the drive is not available, it just hangs on loading (but this happened on 2k) Have you tried logging in as a new user? How deleting her profile then have Windows recreate it? More than likely one of these will fix it. On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:21:26 -0500, Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > -- > This is the PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users (PcTech) mailing list > To post a message email: PcTech@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/pctech > or email: PcTech-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/pctech. > -- Mike Wills Midrange Programmer/Lawson Administrator koldark@xxxxxxxxx http://www.koldark.net Want Gmail? Email koldark+gmail@xxxxxxxxx to get on my waiting list. <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=2483&t=1";>Get Firefox!</a> -- This is the PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users (PcTech) mailing list To post a message email: PcTech@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/pctech or email: PcTech-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/pctech. -- This is the PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users (PcTech) mailing list To post a message email: PcTech@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/pctech or email: PcTech-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/pctech. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.10 - Release Date: 1/10/2005 .
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