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I'm having the same exact problem, if it's making you feel any better... it shouldn't, but at least you aren't alone in this.
It started for me after a LAN party with a bunch of friends. I installed a bunch of games and such and everything worked fine, but once I brought it home it was having a problem. After a lengthy logging in screen (normally like 1 second) it would show my awesome background... and that's it. No start menu, icons, anything else.
Went to task manager, explorer.exe was running and things were slowly loading, but never showed up. Got rid of explorer.exe and reloaded it, everthing shows. But the main problem is I can't really use my start menu (flashes and then dissapears, same with my docked folders), and some programs won't load at all (namely iTunes, which is really bothering me).
I'm also having cd-rom problems, as even when I have my WC3 cd in the drive it tells me to make sure it's there and hit retry. I'm just using a fixed .exe until I can fix this, but this plethora of problems is really aggrevating me.
I've read of this happening to a lot of windows 98 users and it was related to a virus, but all of my processes are legit and my semi-understanding of regedit and msconfig hasn't helped at all. Even with no startup programs running it happens.
Safe mode works, but without internet I really can't live. Does anyone have any clue what's wrong? I really don't want to reinstall WinXP, but if that's what has to be done I want to at least know how to avoid this in the future.
Oh yeah, and I have SP2 as well... which I'm liking less and less each day.
[edit] Oh wow, I had no clue this was such a buried topic. I googled it and responded without taking notice of the posted dates. Sorry about gravedigging, but I really am bothered by this. Does anyone have any clue?
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