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templar67

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• Feb 17, 2005

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Well, my neighbor's computer is messed up and i usually fix it for him. and im having hard time... here's the problem

His brother tried to print something, and there wasn't even a printer hooked up. Now the OS comes up, but no icons show, no start menu. Just a background is all you see.

I tried to repair the OS with the disc but now it says there is no OS on the system.

It was Windows XP Home Service Pack 2

 

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• Feb 17, 2005

• #2

have you tried pressing ctrl-alt-del to get task manager up, then going to file -> new task, and typing in "explorer"?

 

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templar67

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• Feb 17, 2005

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• #3

actually, no i haven't... thanks, i'll let you know if that doesn't work

 

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• Feb 17, 2005

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if you can get the boot menu via pressing F8 before the OS loads, try the option for the last time it booted successfully, as well.

 

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templar67

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• Feb 21, 2005

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thank you, i'll try that also

 

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• Feb 21, 2005

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Yeah sounds like explorer.exe to me. Happens sometimes when things conflict so it will close. As said above to go to Alt+control+delete and go to add no procces and type in explorer.exe

 

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templar67

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• Feb 24, 2005

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well.... alt+ctrl+del didn't come up... the thing about "last working settings" did work, temporarily, explorer would come up, but when i clicked on an icon or something it locked up