The desktop icons and taskbar disappear when windows has finished starting - any of the usual things help
I have a Windows XP Home Edition with a breath main card computer. Replaced the Board, PS and other items. Then re-activated windows and everything was fine. Until the last moment, I rebooted after activating it. I have the problem that I have seen posted in a bit. When Windows has finished initializing all the desktop icons and task bar etc. disappear. Nothing works.
I can bring up the Task Manager and manually run programs, etc.
Believe me when I say I spent reviewing EACH reference to this problem... Yes 5 days and counting... Tried them all.
I also tried a repair of windows in place which ends without any problem (twice)... but still no icons or taskbar. I also ran several controls of virus, including one for the virus, which is usually the cause of this problem. (fsnimda3.exe), I tried all the ideas in another thread (page 9) and many other institutions. Before I did the reconstruction of the material I've cloned the original hard drive and have used the disc cloned juggling his original for the back. Even tried to reinstall the old disk and do a comparison of sector by sector, in the case where my cloning process missed something. In the 30 years I've been in the computer business I have never had a re - format a hard drive to solve a problem. BUT I think it will break my record.
I'm doing this as a favor for a friend. But at this point our friendship is really put to the test
Hello This thread has been created in wrong forum; Microsoft moderation team has moved this thread to the system repair and recovery forum. Tags: Windows so first, I'll start with my system features: When my Windows 7 is slow to start, I do the following: I have a Toshiba laptop with windows XP SP2 installed. Now, all of my desktop icons and the taskbar may not be seen (hidden)
Check this box: http://www.kellys-Korner-XP.com/xp_tweaks.htm Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! Line #195 "restore desktop icons and taskbar." I am installing a true type font but keeps popping up with the error: fonts to use and can not be installed, please wait until windows has finished using the font. I have closed all running programs and tried to restart my computer, but it always appears with the same message. Hi dillydally01, 1. did you of recent changes on the computer? 2. How do you install the fonts on the computer? I suggest that you refer the below Microsoft article and try again mentioned step to install fonts in Windows and check if it helps. How to install or remove a font in Windows The desktop icons and taskbar are at least three minutes to load when I start the computer. Original title: problem with the desktop icons All of a sudden when I start my computer, the icons on the desktop and icons at the bottom of the clock of the take at least three minutes to load, and before that time, they used to load in a few seconds. Also, I have no problem with the computer start. Any help to solve this problem will be greatly appreciated. According to the specifications of your system, hard drives on your system are disks IDE (not the SATA drives). Sometimes the Interface IDE mode can change from DMA mode to PIO mode and when that happens, things sudden. run very slowly, but it is easy to check and adjust if you need to. Here's how: If you are using IDE drives, use Device Manager to check the channel Transfer Mode IDE is set to something like DMA if available (depends on your hardware) and the slow PIO mode. It is easy to check and usually easy to fix and the mode would not have changed in itself, so if she changed to PIO, change it to DMA, and then understand why it changed and fix it. To launch the Device Manager console, click Start, run and enter in the box: %SystemRoot%\System32\devmgmt.msc Click OK. Expand the section controller IDE / ATA to see your IDE channels. Each right click and choose Properties for each channel that has a tab advanced settings, determine the Transfer Mode. There are usually 4 channels to check in a desktop computer, maybe less for laptops. Faster selection will always be a kind of selection DMA (usually: DMA DMA5, UDMA, etc.). If it is PIO, change it to DMA. most of my Windows 8 desktop icons and programs disappeared About 20 GB, programs and files located on my desktop Windows 8 have disappeared. There are several empty folders always on the desktop with all icons and programs into them now gone. I've never seen anything like that in all my years with PC and Mac. I see all the icons and the folder disappears somehow but it's like 95% of them from my desktop Windows 8 watch now 2.05 MB 20 GB before vs. The good thing is that there was no important personal data on my desk because they are on a separate with the external backup drive. Hey Joe, 1. don't you perform all tasks as Refresh\Reset? 2. is it a security software installed on your computer? This problem may occur because of virus. I suggest you to use the Microsoft Safety Scanner and check if there is no virus. Microsoft Safety Scanner: http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx I suggest you to check the folder settings. Windows 8 how: 19. Drives, folders and show hidden files I suggest you to search program or a particular folder and check if you are able to access the same. How to search for a file or an App Keep us updated on the status of the issue. My desktop icons have all disappeared when I started my computer. I can't even drag the icons in the menu 'Start' on the desktop. How can I get the icons on the desktop? My friend thinks that my office is locked. How can I unlock it? I can still access and use all the programs on my computer in the start menu. Hello · What happens when you drag programs to the start menu? · Do you remember any changes made on the computer before the show? · What is the number and the model of the computer? See the link below and try the steps listed: your desktop icons are missing in Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330170 Icons and taskbar DISAPPEARED!
I am able to pull up the Task Manager and Explorer of the execution, but all that appears is My Documents. How can I pick up my taskbar. Thank you In fact I just used Roxio on the rails (which I didn't know I had) good people who sold me this netbook installed this as part of the package. And viola! It worked! Phew! Thank you! Why some of my desktop icons and taskbar are blurred some ondesktop and task bar icons are blurred Hi Anthonyrodak, · Did you do changes on the computer before the show? Follow the suggestions below for a possible solution: Method 1: You can run Microsoft fix mentioned article and check if the problem still persists. Difficulty of broken desktop shortcuts and common system maintenance tasks http://support.Microsoft.com/mats/system_maintenance_for_windows/en-us Method 2: You can also view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base and check. Icons in the notification area become distorted or fuzzy in Windows XP and Windows 2000 http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/836212 Let us know if that helps. Remember - this is a public forum so never post private information such as numbers of mail or telephone! Hello tfortexas, welcome. I recommend to try this: 1 turn off your computer completely --- 1. click on START 6 follow the prompts shown to restore your system to a date before the problem started. Although the system restore does not target the personal data, it is recommended that you back up all data such as music, photos and documents in case something is not bad. Let us know, Thank you! Ryan Thieman Win 8 (Pro) - Questions on program files, the desktop icon and taskbar Hello I just upgraded successfully Win 7 (home) to Win 8 (Pro). I have a few questions in mind: Q1: A program icon can be PIN to the taskbar and desktop at the same time? Q2: Under Win 7, user can easily see all installed programs by clicking on all programs in the Start Menu and select no matter what and copy and paste it on the desktop or PIN to the taskbar task, but under Win 8, I could not find this feature. CAB user to access the program to install all at the same time? Or the user needs to type the name of the program to the search box one by one? How to pin it in the Start Menu Win 8 on the desktop instead? Appreciate someone could help me in this area. Thank you First question: Yes, of course. You can place an icon where you want. Desktop, taskbar, start screen, at the same time. Second Question: The start of Windows 8 has a screen view "all programs" similar to the former in Windows 7 (except the new is full screen). To get her on Windows 8, right click on an empty spot. If you have Windows 8.1 update, which makes it easier to find by putting an arrow at the bottom of the main screen. To take an icon from the start menu or the list of applications and put them on your desktop, right click, choose "Open file location" and then copy / paste the icon on the desktop. How can I restore my desktop icons and the taskbar icons I tried to open a file with a program's .lnk and her was not recognized in the program, and now my desktop icons and my icons to the taskbar was converted into icons for the program. How to get this back? I need to know how to do this in Windows 7. [Moved from comments] There are some patches for the issue that you siding, but most of them requires registry changes that I do not say that they can cause several other problems. I recommend that you perform a system restore. There are two ways to perform the system restore: Menu start open, click Run and type cmd to open the command prompt. Type CD... to book only c:\. Type windows CD then CD System32, and then restore. After once, you'll find yourself in c:\ windows\system32\restore > Type restrui.exe press ENTER. Once the system restore the open window then click on next to select any available restore point. This process takes a few minutes to do the restore and please make sure that once this process has begun there wont be reversible and or you will lose all personal data. Another way to perform the system restore is to open the safe mode by clicking on F8 at startup and check the option of safe mode, then still a dialog box opens to ask the system restore and then follow the steps above. Concerning David I installed windows 7 and the desktop icons and bar tasks are enormous Original title: Windows 7 I installed windows 7 and the desktop icons and bar tasks are enormous, go to Web pages, I have to use the scrollbar at the bottom of page to see the other half of the page - he said could also be a driver problem, but don't know what I'm looking for - someone can help? Hello Yes, well part of the problem from the point of view of Dell is the only "acceptable" operating system for the Office of series 4600 XP. So they have no drivers 'official' for any function of Windows 7! But first I need more information on the video card. Try this (on the Dell site): 4600 system is supplied either with the built-in car video or a dedicated real card video. You should know that you got. Right-click of your mouse on the desktop, click on Properties in the next area, you see. This will bring you into the display properties. Now click on settings at the top right of this next area, click Next on the advance . Now, click on the adapter on the top. Just below the upper on this last box, you will see your listed video adapter. You will need this information, regardless of where you get help. My best recommendation is that you go to the community of Dell and after a question here. Someone may have already found one, but there is nothing official since the operating system is not officially supported. I'm sorry, there is nothing more I can do. Kind regards BearPup I downloaded CreativeCloudSet - Up.exe. When I double click on this file. Adobe Creative Cloud installs the desktop icon and the program tries to open but don't ever completely. The turning turn (for hours), but the program never opens? Hi J.derrick, Please check the help below document: Does not open App | Wheels of progress turn continuously Kind regards Sheena the desktop icons no longer appear when I turn on the computer. Hello, I recently upgraded to an office update prompted and now the desktop icons no longer appear when I restart the computer. I can click with the right button on the desktop, select display, uncheck 'show descktop', then right click on the desktop again, select "Show the desktop" and they will appear. However, when I restart the computer they will disappear again and I have to re do the process again. I use my desktop icons/shortcuts all the time. Does anyone know how to remedy this? Hello, I recently upgraded to an office update prompted and now the desktop icons no longer appear when I restart the computer. I can click with the right button on the desktop, select display, uncheck 'show descktop', then right click on the desktop again, select "Show the desktop" and they will appear. However, when I restart the computer they will disappear again and I have to re do the process again. I use my desktop icons/shortcuts all the time. Does anyone know how to remedy this? See if this work... Right-click in a space of taskbar oprn > select Task Manager > processes tab > right-click on explorer.exe > click on end process > Applications tab > click New task... > of Opeb, enter explorer.exe > OK when. You check office. There the icons? If so, reboot, still exist the icons? 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2. turn on the system and start immediately by pressing the "F8" key until you reach a multiboot menu
3. Select "Safe Mode with network" in the list
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4. click on "system tools."
5. click on "system restore."
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