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Old 01-24-2004, 07:10 PM
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No start menu bar or desk top icons on win98se?

Just the other day at work I started cleaning out some files that a program told me might contain viruses. I wrote down the list and deleted them one by one. Later that day a co-worker used explorer to go to www.aol.com and check e-mail. Then later I looked at the screen and it has the background but no menu bar or desk top icons. I know I should have made a start up disc or backed up the systembefore doing this but I didn't. I made a start up disc off a co-workers computer and it gives me a start menu to work it out but I am lost at this point. I did a system scan from the A: prompt but it didn't find anything. I can do ctl-alt-del and it has no programs running...it is blank. I think I should have at least explorer and a system type program running that controls the menu bar? Please let me know if there is a way to correct this without re-formating?
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Old 02-11-2004, 06:05 PM
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It's a problem that's often related to video drivers.

Will it boot into Safe Mode (tap the F8 key repeatedly during bootup to get to the Boot Menu, then choose Safe Mode)?

If so, sometimes just booting into Safe Mode and then back into Normal mode will do the trick.

If that doesn't fix things, boot into Safe Mode once again and look through Device Manager (Control Panel>System>Device Manager tab) for any entries with a yellow warning mark. If you see one by the entry under the Display Adapters category, click on it and then on the Remove button. Reboot and let Windows reinstall the device.
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