RE: [PCTECH] WEIRD Dell Windows XP problem...

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth,

Didn't even think to try that, I was so happy that I could get Task Manager
and run stuff :-)

I will give that a try tonight.

Thanks,

Chuck

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From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 2:41 PM
To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [PCTECH] WEIRD Dell Windows XP problem...

can you right click on the desktop?  can you use the alt-keys?  (alt-f4
displays the shutdown dialog box for example?) 

 

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From: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users

Date: 01/12/05 13:11:30

To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'

Subject: RE: [PCTECH] WEIRD Dell Windows XP problem...

 

Mike,

 

It doesn't hang. For all intents and purposes it comes completely up except

NOTHING on the screen. I mean absolutely NOTHING but the background color.

No icons, no task bar, no Start button, etc.

 

Thanks,

 

Chuck

 

-----Original Message-----

From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On

Behalf Of Mike Wills

Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:39 PM

To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users

Subject: Re: [PCTECH] WEIRD Dell Windows XP problem...

 

Does she have any drive mappings? I have had problems where if the

drive is not available, it just hangs on loading (but this happened on

2k) Have you tried logging in as a new user? How deleting her profile

then have Windows recreate it? More than likely one of these will fix

it.

 

 

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:21:26 -0500, Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Folks,

>

> Got a strange one. A friend of my sons at college has an out of warranty

> Dell pc running Windows XP. You boot the thing up and saying it comes up

is

> not quite accurate. It comes up with NOTHING on the Desktop. Just a big

> empty screen. Does the same thing in Safe mode. I can do Ctl-Alt-Del and

get

> Task Manager and from there Applications tab shows NOTHING running. I can

do

> a New Task and run something from a CD. I loaded Ad Aware, Spybot,

> Spyblaster, etc. and our antivirus software Sophos that way and then I can

> use the same deal (New Task) to run any of them and they come up with

> nothing. I have booted from a boot diskette and run a command line scan

that

> finds nothing. Tried reverting back to previous config, etc.

>

> She said this has happened before and she took it into a local shop and

they

> reformatted her hard drive to "fix" the problem. She said it was OK to do

> that again but that will be the 3rd or 4th time and there has GOT to be

> something going on.

>

> Any ideas ?

>

> Thanks !

>

> Chuck

>

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