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I am having practically the same problem just worse...Winxp pro boots up though slower than usual. It takes me to my desktop & loads my wallpaper but displays none of my icons, no startbar, & no taskbar. When I pressed c+a+del, nothing happened so I did it again to try to restart the computer. Unfortunitely, this seemed to have no effect. My cursor(which I am able to move) shows the hourglass, as if it recognized the request, but did nothing in response. So getting fraustrated at this point with seeing the hourglass & thinking I was getting somewhere only to see it disappear with no action, I did c+a+del continuously & held it for longer. Finally task manager poped up & I looked at the processes that were currently running. I saw that my CPU was maxed at 100%, which was suprising becuz I only had about 7 processes running (except at first when it showed about 20 processes for task manager-only one window though- these processes were gone within a half minute or so), compared to the usual of close to triple that amount. They were all system processes (srvhost.exe(2), issas.exe, etc.) except for explorer.exe which showed to be the process consuming 94-97% of the CPU. So I first decided to try to access any app from task manager with the new task button on the app page. Slowly but surely the box to enter the desired task appeared and I hit browse (I was trying to get to the control panel & didnt know exe name), the window appeared but just continued to show the flashlight & file graphic as if it were searching for the folders under my computer without stoping to show anything found. I then tried to view the recent docs in that same window to see if it would do anything different but this just caused the window to go blank except for the heading followed by "(not responding)". So I tried to close it out except for I didnt get the "end now or cancel" option, so I gave it a few minutes hoping for response and when I didnt get I just did c+a+del again which removed the 2 smaller windows & took me back to task manager (took a good couple minutes for the window to be in full disply & functional). At this point I again tried to run a new task, this time manually entering the exe name, but it only again lead to the new task window blanking out & freezing until I repeated the same as last time to get back to task manager. This time I ended the explorer.exe process(no problem doing that) becuz it obviously wasnt working anyways & it was maxing the CPU(that was replaced by 1 of the srvhost.exe when ended) & thought that maybe it would run it as a new task after I ended it since it seemed to be the problem. This time it acted as if it accepted the new task, however just ended up like the process ended before. Now I said fck it and decided to try safe mode (couldnt get to alt boot opt b4-found i just wasnt hittin f8 soon enuff.)I didnt think it was even gonna boot to safe mode bcuz it took so long, but it did eventually & when it did it loaded my icons this time but they were all highlighted (not by me) & none of them went to anything...actually it wouldnt even acknowledge that you were clicking on a shortcut more like if you just left clicked on a blank area of a desktop & still no taskbar. So I do c+A+del and the task manager came up although it took awhile to fully load and access.Then when I went to click on the processes tab it blank out on some of the window and the heading was followed by "not responding". At this point the only thing I could do to get out of it was to just shut it off becuz everything pretty much froze but my cursor movement which didnt matter becuz nothing was able to be clicked on to be redirected or anything. Please help any suggestions or maybe alittle insight into what the problem could be so I can try on it again with something that can maybe direct me in some way where to start rather than just jumping into a problem I have no clue about possibly fucking with things tha relate to the problem in no way and leaving me going psycho & throwing an expensive piece of machinerary out the fucking window!!!Please help me it would be greatly appreciated...Niki