pistonj92 Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 I booted up my computer but there is no taskbar or desktop icons. Luckily when my computer booted up, and Internet browser is up. If you don't know of a way to fix this, do you think recovering the whole computer will work or is it useless? My computer is just a full blank screen and this window. My computer is on its last leg so I am not surprised that something like this has happened. I also have tried reebooting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kccitystar Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 ctrl alt del, system processes, kill Explorer.exe and run "explorer" once more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP_Frost Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 ctrl alt del, system processes, kill Explorer.exe and run "explorer" once more. I've tried shutting down explorer.exe before, and my icons and taskbar also vanished. How is it that these things are related to explorer? and is there a way to shut it down without losing the icons? Explorer does slow things down a bit and I only use firefox sorry for the threadjacking :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krawhitham Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 reinstall windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistonj92 Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 ctrl alt del, system processes, kill Explorer.exe and run "explorer" once more. Thanks KC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carter Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 What appears in the browser window when you first boot up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkB Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 I booted up my computer but there is no taskbar or desktop icons. Luckily when my computer booted up, and Internet browser is up. If you don't know of a way to fix this, do you think recovering the whole computer will work or is it useless? My computer is just a full blank screen and this window. My computer is on its last leg so I am not surprised that something like this has happened. I also have tried reebooting. I've tried shutting down explorer.exe before, and my icons and taskbar also vanished. How is it that these things are related to explorer? and is there a way to shut it down without losing the icons? Explorer does slow things down a bit and I only use firefox sorry for the threadjacking :whistle: Explorer.exe (not iexplore.exe, which is the process for Internet Explorer) is the process which actually "loads" the taskbar and icons, etc. and is essentially the controlling as pect of the GUI in Windows. That's why running explorer.exe will load your icons and taskbar and also why. JP_Frost, killing explorer.exe causes these things to disappear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistonj92 Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 What appears in the browser window when you first boot up? It was something about pop-ups. It doesn't appear anymore after I did a virus scan. Thanks guys for trying to help. It works now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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