Slow boot and no desktop icons or taskbar! (XP Pro)

**Kahnovitch** · January 15th, 2004, 06:57 AM

Forgive me if this has been addressed before. I did search through the threads and couldn't find anything relevant.

Basically last night my HDD kept switching itself off and crashing my OS (WinXP Pro) after several occurances of this I changed the IDE cable and it seemed fine.
The normal scandisk screen came up and many files had become crosslinked and were truncated etc.
Anyway to get to the point, my PC boots okay but there is no taskbar, no start menu, no desktop icons, nada!

I can run programs using task manager but I cannot restore the desktop.
I tried going into safe mode to restore a previous version, but safe mode comes up with a blank, black screen.

Does someone know how I can I run the "restore" application using just task manager, or is there any other method I can use to get my desktop back?

Thanks in advance.

**bailey** · January 15th, 2004, 06:48 PM

you should be able to do a install repaire by booting up with the cd . it will repaire any bad system files and not tuch any data or software

**Kahnovitch** · January 16th, 2004, 08:15 AM

Cheers mate, I did exactly that and now it's ok once more.

**beardbuster** · July 28th, 2005, 05:05 AM

I can run programs using task manager but I cannot restore the desktop.

I have the same problem... I was wondering how do you access task manager w/o having as desktop or taskbar?
THANKS in advance

**beardbuster** · July 28th, 2005, 06:35 AM

THANKS!!
I'll now see what I can do about fixing my problem...
THANKS AGAIN!!!

**Koolm1ke** · July 28th, 2005, 09:06 PM

heh, sorry didnt see stevies post

dunno if this is ur prob, but in task manager is explorer.exe file running processes, if it isnt ur not gonna see ur icons start bar ect. while in task mang go to process and, file i think and start new process, just type explorer.exe ,in maybe this will help. if not then oh well.