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Windows XP background loads but no icons/task manager/start menu

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by benjamin.francis 1 view

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Hello guys, Im running Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 510m, everything has been fine (apart from the fact it doesnt charge) until recently when at it refuses to load any icons/start bars anything. It refuses to even run in safe mode. I have tried to get the task manager up but it doesnt I am just left with the windows XP green hills background and nothing else.

any solutions?

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by normh3

You may have a corrupt profile. Do you have the ability to log into the PC as someone else?

by peconet tietokoneet

Try this to see if it will work for you:

XP home on bootup, you get no wallpaper, no taskbar, no icons, no start button, and CTL-ESC does NOT bring up start menu...

Slave HD to another machine...
Do a full Norton scan.
Do a TrendMicro online scan.
Do a Bitdefender online scan. .
See if it cleans out the bugs.

Boot into safe mode w/networking...see if the GUI loads up, and you get all the icons,
task bar back etc...

Install in safe mode, "Adaware, Spybot, CWShredder", and run them all, see if CWShredder finds any items,
Next do SFC /scannow and see if that will do it.
Hope all works out for you.

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