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- Nov 11, 2004
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So,.... issues with Windows... maybe user error?
hi, just incase this helps, ill tell you about the PC before the problem.
the computer is about a month old... lga 775 pent 4 2.8, not overclocked right now. 800fsb, abit aa8 mobo. ddr2 512 3200 ram. nvidia 5750 pci x-16 video card. 80 gb wd hd.
last night i was building a wire harness in my office, listening to music on i tunes. i looked up to the computer wscreen because i saw something pop up. i hadent touched anything on the compuer in probibly 10 min. i tunes was the only program running.
then, all of the desktop icons disapear. the toolbar disapears. so im sitting there, music never missing a beat, and all my moniter displays is the background picture.
right click, nothing. alt+crtl+del and program manager pops up. only i-tunes is running. i went to new task and tryed starting explorer again. and i get the same error message.
restart the computer. as soon as the welcome screen pops up theres about a 20 second delay before the background comes in. (this is excessivly long for my computer. the welcome screen normaly just flickers a split second then goes to the desktop) anyhow. same error message. no desktop icons. no taskbar. just blank desktop.
all the programs work if i open them manualy. except for explorer. i tryed downloading windows updates and it said i had all the current updates. (i have a legit windows xp. its the copy that came with my dell 2 years ago.)
uh... tryed running avg antivirus. no viruses. ran adaware. gor a few programs.. restart. same thing.
ran checkdisk, same thing. till blank desktop. no taskbar.
what the hell did i do?
hi, just incase this helps, ill tell you about the PC before the problem.
the computer is about a month old... lga 775 pent 4 2.8, not overclocked right now. 800fsb, abit aa8 mobo. ddr2 512 3200 ram. nvidia 5750 pci x-16 video card. 80 gb wd hd.
last night i was building a wire harness in my office, listening to music on i tunes. i looked up to the computer wscreen because i saw something pop up. i hadent touched anything on the compuer in probibly 10 min. i tunes was the only program running.
"windoes explorer has encountered an error and must be **** down. blah blah blah"
*clicked dont send*send error, dont send
then, all of the desktop icons disapear. the toolbar disapears. so im sitting there, music never missing a beat, and all my moniter displays is the background picture.
right click, nothing. alt+crtl+del and program manager pops up. only i-tunes is running. i went to new task and tryed starting explorer again. and i get the same error message.
restart the computer. as soon as the welcome screen pops up theres about a 20 second delay before the background comes in. (this is excessivly long for my computer. the welcome screen normaly just flickers a split second then goes to the desktop) anyhow. same error message. no desktop icons. no taskbar. just blank desktop.
all the programs work if i open them manualy. except for explorer. i tryed downloading windows updates and it said i had all the current updates. (i have a legit windows xp. its the copy that came with my dell 2 years ago.)
uh... tryed running avg antivirus. no viruses. ran adaware. gor a few programs.. restart. same thing.
ran checkdisk, same thing. till blank desktop. no taskbar.
what the hell did i do?
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