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My computer has a desktop problem or worse.
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My computer has a desktop problem or worse.
Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 8:28 am
Posted by Miguel
(4 messages posted)
Every time I start up my computer and goes to the desktop, there are no icons, toolbars,
or even the "Start" button, it only shows the desktop background, and all I can use
is the Task Manager to access a couple of programs. I tried using Norton Antivirus,
but did not find anything, so I uninstalled it. My "CPU Usage" is at 0 and 1% almost
dead, I saw that the explorer.exe is missing. I ran it with the Task Manager, and
it made the computer reboot the wrong way. When it did, it did not go to the desktop
it just showed black screen with the little "-" on the top left and couldn't do anything
and the buffer is barely doing anything, you know, when you open a program, the light
flashes rapidly and making noises, but it nearly sounds dead. Help is really needed
please. I will appreciate it.
If you guys want me to give you my Hijackthis report log, just let me know. Thanks
in advance.
Miguel
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re: My computer has a desktop problem or worse.
Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 9:08 am
Posted by quick69gto
(840 messages posted)
It sounds like explorer.exe is corrupt.
Reboot and press F8 during boot up. Scroll up to safe mode and press enter.
Once in safe mode, go to My Computer, right click the C: drive, select Properties,
click the Tools tab, click on Check volume for errors, check the box to automatically
fix errors, and click on Start. Reboot the PC and during boot up it will fix any
errors.
If that doesn't fix it then reboot and press F8 again. This time scroll to Last Known
Good Configuration and press enter.
If that doesn't work, then it's time to repair or reinstall Windows.
Good luck!
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re: My computer has a desktop problem or worse.
Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 9:27 am
Posted by Miguel
(4 messages posted)
I've tried using Safe Mode but its just black screen with "safe mode" text on every
corner of the monitor. But I'll try the second option right now. Thanks.
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re: My computer has a desktop problem or worse.
Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Posted by cogs
(193 messages posted)
if you have google desktop installed, that may be your problem. if you want to uninstall
it> task manager/file/new task(run).../appwiz.cpl/remove google desktop.
On Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 8:28 am, Miguel wrote:
>Every time I start up my computer and goes to the desktop, there are no icons, toolbars,
>or even the "Start" button, it only shows the desktop background, and all I can
use
>is the Task Manager to access a couple of programs. I tried using Norton Antivirus,
>but did not find anything, so I uninstalled it. My "CPU Usage" is at 0 and 1% almost
>dead, I saw that the explorer.exe is missing. I ran it with the Task Manager, and
>it made the computer reboot the wrong way. When it did, it did not go to the desktop
>it just showed black screen with the little "-" on the top left and couldn't do
anything
>and the buffer is barely doing anything, you know, when you open a program, the
light
>flashes rapidly and making noises, but it nearly sounds dead. Help is really needed
>please. I will appreciate it.
>
>If you guys want me to give you my Hijackthis report log, just let me know. Thanks
>in advance.
>
>
>Miguel
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re: My computer has a desktop problem or worse.
Monday, February 18, 2008 at 9:54 am
Posted by Miguel
(4 messages posted)
Yes, I totally knew Google desktop had something to do with it. Last thing I was
downloading was "Google Earth" and boom, it got me to this problem. I have already
uninstalled it but it did nothing. :(
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re: My computer has a desktop problem or worse.
Monday, February 18, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Posted by Jacob6601
(1710 messages posted)
Try running the System File Checker (Sfc /Scannow) from "safe mode, command prompt".
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310747/en-us
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re: My computer has a desktop problem or worse.
Monday, February 18, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Posted by Rich Trotto
(175 messages posted)
Did your desktop folder get moved? It should be in C:\Documents and Settings\yourprofile\Desktop
It might be "D" drive if your computer is partitioned.
On Monday, February 18, 2008 at 9:54 am, Miguel wrote:
>Yes, I totally knew Google desktop had something to do with it. Last thing I was
>downloading was "Google Earth" and boom, it got me to this problem. I have already
>uninstalled it but it did nothing. :(
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re: My computer has a desktop problem or worse.
Monday, February 18, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Posted by Rich Trotto
(175 messages posted)
You can do a system restore to before you installed the Google.
On Monday, February 18, 2008 at 9:54 am, Miguel wrote:
>Yes, I totally knew Google desktop had something to do with it. Last thing I was
>downloading was "Google Earth" and boom, it got me to this problem. I have already
>uninstalled it but it did nothing. :(
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re: My computer has a desktop problem or worse.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 9:16 am
Posted by Miguel
(4 messages posted)
The desktop folder is still in place where it should be and I can't go back where
I installed Google to restore. I also found out that the shell "explorer.exe" was
missing too. Isn't that another problem that could cause this?
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