froggy Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 My laptop was fine on friday but yesterday i turned it on and my background came up but no icons or toolbar i'm on the internet now becausei pressed ctrl+alt+del and the task manager came upNew task then browsed for internet explorer but thats all i could do how come i dont have a desktop?could it be a virus or have i done something to hide it? any advice welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 can you get on MSN mate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCCORNY11 Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 after hitting ctrl alt del got to new task and type explorer see if that brings your desktop up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggy Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 after hitting ctrl alt del got to new task and type explorer see if that brings your desktop up i'm on explorer now still no desktop or toolbar but i can use msn etc. but i have to go through task manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hezz Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 run explorer.exe then use task manager to kill explorer.exe then see what happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggy Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 run explorer.exe then use task manager to kill explorer.exe then see what happens i run explorer.exe the toolbar at the bottom came up for a second and disappeared again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cougaruk Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 My laptop was fine on friday but yesterday i turned it on and my background came up but no icons or toolbar i'm on the internet now becausei pressed ctrl+alt+del and the task manager came upNew task then browsed for internet explorer but thats all i could do how come i dont have a desktop?could it be a virus or have i done something to hide it? any advice welcome With the XP CD in the CD-drive, go to task manager => file => new task and run sfc /scannow. This could repair the files missing for the desktop....you could have picked up a virus? Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCCORNY11 Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 it sounds like a virus but try safe mode then use your virus scanner to get rid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggy Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 got it all back on now just done a system restore from two weeks ago all my icons and taskbar is back up an runnin cheers guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwwd Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 System Restore usually sorts out a lot of problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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