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re: Win98: Desktop icons and Task Bar do not appear upon startup
Wednesday, November 19, 2003 at 3:10 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by GregB
(4 messages posted)
I have the same problem after installing a compactflash reader. The driver for the
reader installed without problem. Then I got a message like: "install DirectX from
CD?" I did and after a reboot no icns etc. ANymore suggestions?
Thanks,
Greg
On Sunday, August 17, 2003 at 1:51 am, yuds37 wrote:
>Well, first I tried the suggestion of replacing the shell=explorer.exe in system.ini
>with shell=winfile.ini. I was surprised when that worked- well partially. Instead
>of just having the wallpaper, a program came up (winfile, i assume) that allowed
>me to browse [the Windows way, as opposed to DOS] through my hard drive. I was able
>to replace the explorer.exe file from the Win98SE cd by opening a program called
>SFC. The details were listed above i think. Explorer did work, but many programs
>would not run...
>
>In any case, I still had these other problems so I followed the suggestion of another
>helpsite to just reinstall Windows by simply setting the BIOS to boot from the CD
>and then running the Windows setup. So far all is good, if not better. Nothing got
>erased etc. I did have to reinstall the drivers for some devices. In order to get
>my monitor to display in 800x600, I had to reinstall my display drivers for my video
>card. I thought reinstalling Windows was supposed to be a last resort, but to me
>it did not seem bad at all- it seems to have cured some other problems that have
>accumulated over time too.
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