re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes'
Sunday, February 1, 2004 at 8:02 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Wild Idea
(3 messages posted)
>H.P hmmm.If you can get a hold of or have a set up disc from any laptop w/ xp .
You may get the option to repair at boot up. by pressing 'R'
Oh Also if i am not mistaken H.P partitions their hard drive With a complete Op.
System recovery. Besides the System restore that xp offers in windows .
At boot press whatever it takes to get in bios . Flip across the top to BOOT, Enter.
Arrow down to Hard drives Enter. If it displays two numbers that look alike except
for the last two digits your in luck if not just curse out my name to feel better
. One may have (AA) and the other(AB)? Whatever it may be switch em and make it the
first hard drive and the first boot . Or heh heh .Press F10 at boot ?i am just having
flash backs to HP days and it aint Happy. Good luck sorry if i cant help
On Monday, January 26, 2004 at 1:35 pm, Jim Aikin wrote:
>Thanks for trying. I had already spotted that suggestion in another message in this
>Forum, and had tried it. Sadly, it doesn't work. I tried it a couple of different
>ways: by typing "Explorer" and "Explorer.exe" directly, and also by selecting the
>Windows Explorer item from the list of icons in my Desktop folder. The Hewlett Packard
>help desk (it's an HP laptop) suggested running chkdsk in /R mode. Their instructions
>on how to do this didn't work, but I was able to figure it out. I ran chkdsk in
/R
>mode by setting it up in Task Manager and then rebooting. That didn't help either.
>Can anyone make other suggestions? Thanks! --JA
>
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