[dba-Tech] No Icons

Do the Ctrl-Alt-Del and choose task manager, then File Run and type in
"explorer.exe". That may get you enough to mend the rest.
Hope this helps.
Mike Tope

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathryn Bassett" <kathryn at bassett.net>
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 2:45 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] No Icons


Win2000pro sp4

Boot up, and instead of showing desktop with icons etc, it's showing nothing
but blue (not blue screen of death, but the blue that is normally
background). No start button, no nothing. The only thing I can bring up is
control-alt-delete. I do see the graphics that say Windows is booting, etc;
it's just that the desktop is non-existant. The Windows button doesn't bring
up the start menu either.

I finally got into Safe Mode, but the same problem is there. I get a black
screen with Safe Mode in all four corners, but no icons, so Start, nothing.

I am able to boot into Safe Mode with Command prompt and pretty conversant
with dos commands, but I don't know what to check.

Everything was working last night at shut down. He (my husband) had only
been on long enough to grab his email, and do some eBay surfing. We have all
the usual safeguards, McAfee, ZA, IHateSpam, and other stuff. He *does*
occasionally visit x rated sites, but since we'd been gone on a trip, he
didn't do any of that last night. I just asked and he said it's probably
been at least a month since he went on any of the x rated sites. Because of
problems in the past (mostly toolbars from those sites), I've gotten him
pretty paranoid about doing things that would cause a problem, and it's been
almost a year since there has been a problem, so he's learned.

And he only gets a few emails from trusted people, with nothing unusual
about them. So, I don't see how a virus or anything else could have done
anything. The only exception being something that was timed to go off today
(know of any?)

So, what next to solve this problem? Would any of these help me (keeping in
mind I can only get safe mode dos answers):
Enable boot logger, enable vga mode, debugging mode? If so, which should I
choose, then how do I check the result?

--
Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA)
"Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap"
kathryn at bassett.net
http://bassett.net

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