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by mac521 1 view

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I'm having problems booting up my home PC. What happens is that it loads up and you get the desktop but then when it tries to load the start button and the rest of that task bar it doesn't seem to complete. It will look like its loading then flashes back to a blank screen or I should say the screen with the background picture and no icons. If you try to go to anything like my computer or all programs you have like seconds then it does this flash and you have lost everything you were trying to navigate to. I got into the safe mode and the problem is occurring there as well. I've tried booting from my install disks and that will not work as well. Does anyone have any answers on how I can fix this? Oh I have windows XP but not sure what version because its a home PC and I do not alot of maintenance on it...

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by normh3

If you run Task Manager, is explorer.exe running? If not and you attempt to run it manually do you get an error. I posted a possible solution to this issue the other day. I will see if I can locate it again.

by wizard-09

Once the machine boots up pust ctrl alt del, then go to the task manager, under processes check for explorer.exe end the process.

Then goto file new task then type explorer.exe this will load a new process of explorer.exe should show you the full desktop.

Then goto start run then type msconfig uncheck everything in startup list then one by one enable them again to you encounter your program once you start a service thats your problem remove it or do something with it your choice.

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by rob miners

Presst ctrl+alt+del and end explorer.exe and then go to file, start process, and start explorer.exe and then your desktop should show up

Click Start, Run and type regedt32 and press Enter.

Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\winlogon\

You will have to set the Shell variable in the right hand pane by right clicking and select Modify. It should = Explorer.exe

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