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re: Start Menu & Win Explorer - icons gone Friday, July 15, 2005 at 8:04 am Posted by John Reed (1 messages posted) Have identical problem - also program icons are gone & only system icons (My Computer, Recycle, etc.) remain but do not work when brought up - i.e. Recycle shows nothing. On Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 9:33 am, Delinda wrote: >I'm working on a friend's computer which is running Win ME. The main problems I >am seeing are: > >1. when I click on the Start menu, the button presses down and stays that way, and >the menu never comes up. > >2. when I open Win Explorer (or my computer), a message pops up about Active X not >enabled, and I can't view any of the files. I can click the folders button and see >a list of the directory structure but when I click on a certain folder, I get the >Active X message and it never lets me actually see the files in that folder. > >I've got the Windows disk that came with the PC, but I'm not sure which utility to >run to fix this problem without loosing data on the hard drive. Any help would be >greatly appreciated. Thanks! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Start Menu & Win Explorer - icons gone Friday, July 15, 2005 at 8:46 am Posted by Delinda (2 messages posted) I actually figured this out yesterday after I posted. I booted into safe mode (keep hitting F8 during boot up). Then open My Computer, go to c:\windows\system (I think that's where I found it) and run the executable for registry repair. Worked like a charm!! On Friday, July 15, 2005 at 8:04 am, John Reed wrote: > > >Have identical problem - also program icons are gone & only system icons (My Computer, >Recycle, etc.) remain but do not work when brought up - i.e. Recycle shows nothing. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum