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Originally Posted by Tissue-san
I was having problems with my computer and laptop. I found there was many malware, worms, trojans so I downloaded many programs and did multiple scans. I was able to fix my laptop and get rid of all problems. Though my computer still continued to crash. We have the restore discs so I used them to restore the computer. After the restore was complete and the computer was wiped back to its original manufactured state, we found that the start menu along with the icons had disappeared. This has happened multiple times when we have restored our computer and we have yet to find how to get the start menu back. Not only did the start menu disappear though the icons are rather large and it almost seems as if the screen is stretched out larger then it should possibly. I would really like to get our start menu back as it causes more problems then just the facor of inconvienece as we have to use ctrl+alt+dlt to start most of our programs. Our emachines is windows xp and is a rather old computer, about six years old. I was wondering if anyone knew how I could get my start menu back, I have tried looking up ways though no one seems to be having the exact problem I do.
I have tried going into safety mod which there is a start menu, yet it doesn't help. I have also made sure that the start menu is not hidden. I am at a loss of what else to try and would appreciate any help I could get.
Thank you
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not sure this is the solution, but you say the screen is big and stretched, it may be too big to show the taskbar and start button
right click a blank space on the desktop / Properties / Settings tab / look at screen resolution, the lower the figure the bigger the icons / try raiseing the resolution. It will depend on what video card you have as to what you can select
look here - click image to focus
http://www.overclockeddoc.com/bookwo...Resolution.JPG
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