re: Win98: Desktop icons and Task Bar do not appear upon startup
Saturday, January 10, 2004 at 10:41 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by CCN
(1 messages posted)
I had this problem on 2 boxes, it wasn't a virus or the DDM adware problem. This
is how I resolved it.
It wasn't the registry
It wasn't a virus
It wasn't adware stuff.
It wasn't a faulty hard drive.
Hopefully you have an Internet connection to do this.
Boot Command Prompt only.
CD WINDOWS
EDIT SYSTEM.INI
Change shell=explorer.exe to shell=winfile.exe
ALT-F ALT-X (Save and Exit)
Boot Windows normally
Click File, Run C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\ie6setup.exe
Download and re-install Internet Explorer.
Boot to command prompt and change your system.ini
file back to shell=explorer.exe
This isn't documented anywhere I have found but it resolved my background only and
no icon/taskbar problem.
If you don't have an internet connection to do this,
manually run Ie6setup.exe from a working computer,
click custom, click adavanced, choose download only and choose all options. Burn
this folder to a CD and copy to problem computer in WINFILE.
Good luck, was a painful 2-3 days internet search for me without a resolution, but
the above fixes it.
CCN
Osterville, MA
www.capecodnetworks.com
On Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 11:15 pm, claudine wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes:
>
>My computer had been running normally the night before and was shut down properly.
>I turned the computer on in the morning, everything seemed to be working fine, but
>all that came up after startup was the desktop wallpaper and no icons or task bar.
>When I did a ctrl+alt+del, the End Task window showed no tasks. I subsequently did
>a ctrl+alt+del again to restart and did so in Safe Mode, producing the same results.
>The day previous, I did not do anything out of the ordinary, except installed a
CD
>Rom kids game (don't know if this would affect the performance.) I did not open/nor
>receive any unknown "mysterious" e-mail either.
>
>I have consulted with an other newsgroup and had been suggested to:
> 1) "Restore a backup copy of the registry using ScanReg."
>-I tried doing this for the previous 2 days, with no results, on my third attempt,
>the "...operation failed."
> 2) "Restart the system and hold down the CTRL key while the system is booting.
This
>will take you to the Boot Menu,select Command Prompt Only. Now type Edit C:\Windows\system.ini
>and look for shell=progman.exe. If found chance to shell=Explorer.exe then save
and
>close."
>- I found shell=Exploerer.exe in system.ini
>
>I have looked through the other postings, but am not sure if my explorer.exe is
corrupt,
>my computer has a virus, or if I should just reinstall my system altogether. Before
>I proceed with anything drastic, I will also need to know how I can backup my existing
>data...
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