Desk Top Not Loading
Jun 30, 2008
The icons on my desk top have recently been highlighted on the name portion of the icon before my desk top failed to load - I don't know if that means anything or not but thought I'd mention it. When I start my computer it begins the normal start up process and appears to be okay until it gets to the splash screen: Microsoft Windows xp Home Edition, that's as far as I can get, nothing on my desk top loads. I went into safe mode and ran a complete scan (Norton) for any viruses and there wasn't any detected. I did a registry repair too to no avail. Prior to this I tried a system restore to get rid of the highlighted icons on my desk top and for some reason and each time I tried it it said no changes had been made; I tried it again in safe mode and the same thing.
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Jul 25, 2008
I have a new computer my son put togeather and every time it is turned on the windows background comes on,the icons apear for only a few seconds then disappear leaving only the windows background and no start menu. The computer will still work through the task manager feature (ctrl+alt+delete) and also starts fine in safe mode and appears to work fine. Could it be my video cards driver That might not be xp approved. It is a XFX nForce 680i motherboard & a EVGA 8800 gs video card. This problem has existed from the birth of this computer.
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Aug 25, 2005
I've cleaned up my computer with ad ware, spy-bot, etc. now when i turn on my computer my desk top does not come up. my documents come up. how can i go back to desk top
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Nov 6, 2006
I have a PC running win xp and it recently crashed and as a result I had to re-install windows and since then everything appear to be ok apart from the fact that the icons on the desktop are over laying one another. If I right click the desk top and select 'arrange icons by' it makes no difference whatever combination of setting I chose for the desk top settings.
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Nov 1, 2008
On boots or reboots my desktop is not showing up. Comes up to the "my computer" screen. If i close this out my desktop is there.
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Oct 10, 2009
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when I double click OR right click open on my desktop icons, they don't do anything, then my desktop is frozen and I have to shutdown computer and reboot. Desktop is UN frozen again, until I try to open another shortcut icon. Not All of them do this, but a lot of them. These are desktop icons/shortcuts I put on the desktop.
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Jan 14, 2009
When I turn the computer on It goes through the motions and I can see the background but not the desktop. It will sit for a while with the background showing then It will go to the log on screen and when I click owner, It will try to log on and then jump back to logging off.
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Mar 11, 2005
I am new to this site.. i have installed windows xp home edition with sp2. how do i go directly to my desk top without that bothersome log on window.
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Jan 16, 2005
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Oct 9, 2010
I have a win xp sp2. after installing ie7, i got a blank desk top with iertutil.dll missing. now i can only access through task manager. get messages ordinal 173 not found in---, ordinal 313 not found --, explorer not found. even if i try to remove ie, it does not get removed.
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Apr 26, 2010
why computer is highlighting desktop icons?
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Aug 11, 2005
All of a sudden when i go to move a desk top i con it pops back to where it was. i know there is a wawy to change this but i just can't think of it.i have been to right click desk top and all and lock desk top is not checked.
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Sep 2, 2004
Here is an very easy way to remove the build number from your desktop. Just follow the directions below to remove it.
Right click on the desktop
Expand arrange icons by
Click on lock items to desktop
The build number will be gone
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Aug 29, 2005
I have an Alienware Pentium 4 PC which is refusing to run a number of programmes. When I double click I get the hour glass but then the pointer returns back to an arrow and its as if the programme never started. I've check the apps I have open and its not listed. I've tried reinstalling the application and it makes no difference. I also have a problem where my desk top freezes so I can't click on anything but my mouse still drives the pointer. I ran a hard disk check using a utility from Seagate and it found errors with the metafiles and file structure in section one of my drive.
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May 21, 2008
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Aug 9, 2007
I have suddenly have blue highlights on my desk icons. windows xp home edition, dsl. have quaranted 2 trojans ... I also had an error message...syntax error, http://www.seek-media.com.
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Jun 17, 2010
I have HCL Core 2 Duo Desk top slim model it'm having ssssss sound whin system start what i have to do.i have check system fan is OK.
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Feb 6, 2007
A Dell Inspiron 4000, Win 2000, and I recently moved my printer. When I go to print, the resume light continues blinking and computer says it's not connected to LPT1, but everything is hooked up the same. Does the printer need to be realigned? Or is there a virus or malware causing this?
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Feb 18, 2009
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Dec 16, 2009
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Jan 25, 2009
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<br> For example who has been reached to my shared folders, and opened which files? Because i also wonder who has connected to my computer even i was not on my desk.<br>
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Jul 16, 2008
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Oct 19, 2005
I was trying to run the Trojan Vundo B removel tool off the Symatech web site, it told me to put my computer into safe mode. When I restarted my computer it went to my log on user menu, I hit the administrator one, then my screen went to black, all black except it says safe mode in the four corners and it says:
Microsoft (R) Windows XP (R) (Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519: Service Pack 9) It may not be a 9 on the last part. I can't really read it because it is overlapping the S in Safe Mode that is in the corner.I can access the task manager but not sure how to bring up the desk top
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Oct 15, 2009
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