re: Blank Desktop Tuesday, January 6, 2004 at 6:32 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Steverz (216 messages posted) Since you can see your applications without any problem when using Safe Mode, this is a good indication that there is a start-up item that is causing a conflict. Try this before reinstalling Windows again. ___ From Start, select Run, type MSCONFIG. Go to the Startup tab and deselect everything that is not needed. The following site has a list of what each startup item is and if it is needed ____ http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php _____ You may need to repeat unchecking items several times in order to find what is causing the problem, but, this is better than having to reinstall Windows. On Tuesday, January 6, 2004 at 4:37 am, Naf wrote: >Everytime I reboot my win98 laptop I get a blank (black screen). I don't see my >appilcations on the desktop and I am sure they are there. I can see the applications >on the desktop if choose the Safe Mode. >I have tried every single solution but I am not getting anywhere. I tried to install >win98 but didn't solve the problem,tried to change the config and autoexec files >and no luck....any other solutions beside getting new harddrive or formatting the >one I have since I have my own files. Written in response to: Blank Desktop (Naf: Tuesday, January 6, 2004 at 4:37 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Blank Desktop (Naf: Tue, Jan 6, 2004, 4:37 am) re: Blank Desktop (Ronan: Tue, Jan 6, 2004, 4:51 am) re: Blank Desktop (Steverz: Tue, Jan 6, 2004, 6:32 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum