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by centimo3

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Thank you all that answered my last question. When i log onto my win2000 pc. Explorer opens up in a dos window then disappers. None of my icons load. My start toolbar is missing. I can run probrams using the run command through taskmanager. If i tryto open explorer through the command prompt. I get an error message. Program to big to fit in memory. If I browse through the lookin window MY Copmuter icon is the windows page icon. Any ideas help.

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by ray.gala

It looks like your Active Desktop is corrupt, that's why all links associated with icons are broken. Of course, you can try to refresh your desktop (write-click on desktop and choose Refresh, it suppose to re-build all links).

But most probably this won't help, because the error message about "not enough memory" is disturbing. Are you sure your PC is not infected with some worm? If all your system resources are gone (of course, if you had plenty of them before) and all links are broken, it looks like you need to run anti-virus in its most sensitive mode.

And of course, most radical treatment is to re-format HDD and re-install operating system, but this the last resort, and you should do this only if you're sure your PC is infected and damaged files cannot be repaired.

Best of luck!

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