re: No start menu or icons - blank screen Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 9:31 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by jcw (5125 messages posted) Might want to do an on-line AV scan as well, e.g. at: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm On Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 7:52 pm, Steph28 wrote: >Well, turns out I had the W32.HLLW.Gaobot.gen worm and a parasite. Sigh. > >I ended up creating a new user acct and deleted the old one. windows is still loading >rather slowly but now that i think all my viruses are gone (have run spybot and adware >and norton) maybe that will help. > >So..I think I'm in the clear. thanks a million for your help! Written in response to: re: No start menu or icons - blank screen (Steph28: Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 7:52 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] No start menu or icons - blank screen (Steph28: Tue, Jan 27, 2004, 5:17 pm) re: No start menu or icons - blank screen (jcw: Tue, Jan 27, 2004, 5:55 pm) re: No start menu or icons - blank screen (Steph28: Wed, Jan 28, 2004, 1:50 am) re: No start menu or icons - blank screen (jcw: Wed, Jan 28, 2004, 11:24 am) re: No start menu or icons - blank screen (Steph28: Wed, Jan 28, 2004, 4:53 pm) re: No start menu or icons - blank screen (jcw: Wed, Jan 28, 2004, 8:17 pm) re: No start menu or icons - blank screen (Steph28: Thu, Jan 29, 2004, 7:52 pm) re: No start menu or icons - blank screen (jcw: Thu, Jan 29, 2004, 9:31 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