[stokie.dan]

ok i just come back from a nice weekend away, turn my laptop on as usual, logged on and say the the [bleep]? what happens is the screen just goes black once i enter my password to log on. then my documents appear in a window. thats how am on here now. i really am so confused. no start menu or desktop or anything. just a blank black screen with my documents opened. please help im really worried.

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I assume, you can access Task Manager, correct?
Click on New Task, and type in:
explorer.exe
Click OK.
Is your desktop back?

Can you boot to Safe Mode?

[Broni]

I assume, you can access Task Manager, correct?
Click on New Task, and type in:
explorer.exe
Click OK.
Is your desktop back?

Can you boot to Safe Mode?

[stokie.dan]

omg thank you sooooo much. thank you thank you!!! top man!

[Broni]

You're very welcome
Restart computer, and see if everything is OK.

[stokie.dan]

well just restarted and it did it again. had to open the explorer.exe in task manager to get it back again.

[Broni]

Try System Restore to some day before the weekend.

[stokie.dan]

no the desktop didnt come up straight away like normal but i opened the explorer.exe in task manager and desktop opened a pop-up came up saying that it did not complete successfully and that an unspecified error occured during system restore.

[Broni]

Try another date.

[stokie.dan]

no didnt work

[Broni]

1. Go to Start
2. In "Start search" type "regedit" (without the quotes)
3. Hit Enter (this opens the Registry Editor)
4. Expand: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion by clicking on the tiny right-point arrowhead to the left of each
5. Scroll down to Winlogon and click on it once
6. In the list that appears in the right-hand pane, find the word Shell and double click it
7. In the small window that opens, if anything other than "explorer.exe" is in the Value Data field, delete it and type "explorer.exe" (without the quotes)
8. Click OK
9. Close the Registry Editor
10. Reboot

[stokie.dan]

cheers that worked
thanks for your help... top man!

[Broni]

Cool