re: no icons or taskbar on startup Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 11:30 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by xpadvisor (847 messages posted) You may indeed have a virus. The newer bad-boys are trained to turn off antivirus, spywareblockers and firewalls if needed. Can you get to the internet ? Go to and run housecall.antivirus.com. Also download Stinger utility from http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ and run it. If a particular virus is mentioned in the housecall scan, you may want the specific removal tool from Norton website. Norton also recommends turning off the System Restore (virus hide in these files and cannot be removed). On Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 9:59 am, thehunter02 wrote: >When I boot my computer, I have no icons or taskbar when windows boots. I can bring >them up by restarting explorer. I have scanned for viruses with my norton 2003, but >nothing is detected. Something is wrong with my norton though. Autodetect will not >come on, and when you enable it, it still won't come on. Also, I am getting an email >protection error. Do I have a virus that I have yet to get rid of, or is there another >problem? Written in response to: no icons or taskbar on startup (thehunter02: Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 9:59 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] no icons or taskbar on startup (thehunter02: Sat, Nov 29, 2003, 9:59 am) re: no icons or taskbar on startup (Tuvayas: Sat, Nov 29, 2003, 10:22 am) re: no icons or taskbar on startup (xpadvisor: Sat, Nov 29, 2003, 11:30 am) re: no icons or taskbar on startup (Tom Myboy: Sat, Nov 29, 2003, 1:13 pm) re: no icons or taskbar on startup (RanK: Sat, Dec 6, 2003, 2:00 pm) re: no icons or taskbar on startup (Jacob Callahan: Sun, Jan 30, 2005, 11:38 pm) 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 XP Discussion Forum