[dba-Tech] No Icons

I take it the Ctrl-Shift-Esc key combo for the task manager doesn't work
either ?
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathryn Bassett" <kathryn at bassett.net>
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'"
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Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] No Icons


Though the Ctrl-Alt-Del dialog comes up, Task Manager is dimmed out.
However, I'm going to follow Mike's tip about the sdbot and zotob worms in
the morning (gotta leave shortly for a meeting tonight). That sounds like a
good probability.

Kathryn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mike Tope
> Sent: 23 Aug 2005 4:24 pm
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [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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