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re: Win98: Desktop icons and Task Bar do not appear upon startup
Thursday, March 3, 2005 at 1:59 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by David
(1 messages posted)
Hi, CNN! Your solution helped me get a computer running for my teen daughter who
has a form schizophrenia and needed the outlet of having her own computer running
again. You are a life-saver in my household and I just wanted to thank you!
David~
On Saturday, January 10, 2004 at 10:41 am, CCN wrote:
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>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
>
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