Windows XP desktop icons and start menu disappear on startup
When I start XP the icons and the start menu appear normally for a few seconds and then disappear. My mouse cursor still works, and I can open and execute programs through the task manager. Can somebody please help me with this? I'm not sure what to do short of reformatting and reinstalling.
desktop icons and start button disappeared xp
i had it happen to me and it was caused by a backdoor trojan virus.
i downloaded lastest FREE version of AVG free anti-virus software and ran it and it found two trojans, one call trojan backdoor and some other one. after running a high priority scan, the program delete them from my system, i restarted the computer and EVERYTHING went back to normal operation.:D
Windows XP desktop icons and start menu disappear on startup
Here's what worked for me:
Go to Task Manager (control-alt-delete) and kill Explorer.exe. Then relaunch Explorer.exe as described above using Task Manager -> File -> New Task (Run...). Type in explorer.exe.
The problem had persisted after several restarts, and simply launching Explorer.exe did not solve the problem until I first killed the process.