coffindodger Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 HiI'm working on a Win ME PC that boots into windows both normally and safe mode. However when it has finished booting there is just the wallpaper on display, no taskbar strt button or icons. Pressing ctrl-alt-delete brings up task manager but no programs are running and there appears to be no option to run any programmes. Pressing the F1 key has no effect and neither does pressing the windows key.Any help would be appreciatedBrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Check shell= line in system.ini, make sure it's set to explorer.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hankjrfan00 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Try scanning it with a dos based antivirus. Fprot is a free one.Also if you have a dos boot disk you can boot to dos and run C:\windows\scanreg /restore to try to restore a backup of the registry.Another thing if it will boot into safe mode you can try running system restore.And last but not least if all else fails the reinstall windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinY Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 I have the same problem but in win98 any icon for programs and folders, menus, here a screenshot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 I have the same problem but in win98 any icon for programs and folders, menus, here a screenshot:Boot into DOS, delete the shelliconcache in \WINDOWS, and run WIN to get back into Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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