Explorer not starting up.

[superdarius]

This is happening on a few WinXP Pro workstations on a Novell Network. When starting up the PC, Explorer does not start. It stays on the desktop background and not the taskbar or the desktop icons is showing at all. The only way it starts up is when I restart and then log on again or if I run explorer manually from run dialog from the taskmanager. How can I fix this? This is becoming very irritating.

Note: I don't think it has to do with the Novell login, because the login script runs without any problems and then just before explorer starts up it just stays there. Any help will be appreciated.

[superdarius]

Please help... This is getting more and more important. It's beginning to happen to more and more PC's. Could I be doing wrong in setting up the PC's, installing, ect. Please help anyone...

[njovin]

It sounds like there may be some network logon issues. Have you installed the newest version of the Novell client off of Novell's website? Also, this sounds stupid, but I have seen this happen on a machine where there is either a bad CD in the drive or the CD drive is bad. Unreadable CDs seem to bog windows xp up pretty good.

[kpunderground]

You will need to add it to your Novell lgoin script. For instance, ours is ran at the end of the scipt. Some run it at the top. For more information, check out Novell.com