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Desktop Icons Missing
I keep getting a box.....top says EXPLORER, yellow
triangle with !.....An error has occured, Explorer will now close... when I close, I have no more icons or start menu. I only have my desktop background. Nothing works, I have to restart and this vicious circle starts again. HELP HELP |
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Desktop Icons Missing
try booting to Safe Mode - is that OK?
if so, then You may have a virus/spyware hijack download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling viruses are not present on your PC http://download.nai.com/products/mca...rt/stinger.exe - update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files. Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to remove spyware, adware, and other such nasties from your system. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp "James" wrote in message ... I keep getting a box.....top says EXPLORER, yellow triangle with !.....An error has occured, Explorer will now close... when I close, I have no more icons or start menu. I only have my desktop background. Nothing works, I have to restart and this vicious circle starts again. HELP HELP |
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