| 1 problem need help, on Jul 9, 2008 3:30:54 am BSTSame problem anyone help? | 2 challanged, on Jul 9, 2008 11:16:06 pm BSTWell good news for me; I have fixed the problem with my machine. After hours of reading blogs and posts and getting different suggesttions from many people I decided to do what I know. I restarted my computer, upon start up I hit F8 to get into the safe mode options. I selected start in safe mode. I then went into control panel, and did a system restore to a date from last month. Once that happened, the comp restarts itself and lo and behold everything was back to normal.
I would give this option a try.
I did many things from creating a new user account, etc etc. and nothing worked. Try the system restore and that should fix the problem. | 48 shivakumar, on Sep 27, 2008 7:20:53 am BSTDear administrators..
iam using windows vista home Edition
Upon start up only my wallpaper shows. There are no icons, no task bar, no start menu, nothing, just a blank screen .
desktop icons and start menu recent program icons dont display!. Can someone please help me.
how can i recover it | 122 Pratibha, on Feb 3, 2009 2:12:13 pm GMTPress button alt+ctrl+Delete. then click on new task button & write in box "explorer.exe" then click on Ok Button Ur PC will be start. | 124 mahat, on Feb 6, 2009 1:07:12 am GMTI don't even see explorer.exe in Task Manager/Processes. When I typed in explorer.exe and try running it, it said that could not find/locate the file. However, the explorer.exe file is in C:\WINDOWS\
Please advise. I have tried reparing Window twice already, and have restore it to all my previous settings, but still my desktop just don't show up. Oh, I even tried using Uniblue to run registry cleanup.
Really hopeless now because I don't want to spend my whole weekends reinstalling softwares =( | 136 Jay, on Feb 21, 2009 12:30:35 pm GMTHi, I found the following at a Windows XP Newsgroup at
http://www.microsoft.com/...
In short, the proposed action plan that worked for him and seems to be
working for me follows. Jay
I read many posts related to the topic and eventually did the following:
1. booted up to windows
2. ctrl+alt+del to get windows task manager
3. File, new task, typed regedit, clicked ok
4. go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current
Version\Image File Execution Options\
5. In there I had an explorer.exe folder that I deleted (you may have an
entry in the root of the Image File folder as well.. delete them also).
6. Rebooted and everything was back to normal.
7. Breathed a sigh of relief.
You can back up the explorer.exe folder (and files in the Image File
Execution Options root if applicable) by exporting them before the deletion
process.
Hopefully this thread will save many people lots of time in the future.
Thanks to everyone for their help and happy new year!
Sean | 142 rahul, on Mar 1, 2009 11:54:59 am GMTThat not work there is no explorer.exe | 147 jtk, on Mar 10, 2009 10:22:19 pm GMTThere is also no explorer.exe folder in my registry or iexplorer folder so is there another option besides sys recovery ... also don't have a previous restore point plz help | 151 DLAdy3, on Mar 13, 2009 7:36:05 pm GMTI am having the same problem i looked up this problem on many sites and forums and have found many solutions like using ctrl+alt+del which at first was working for me now when i log on it wont even open task manager anymore i opened the regedit but found no explorer.exe nor a iexplore.exe. I also seen that it could be from deleting a spyware which changed the userinit.exe which is not my problem either. I operate a windows xp. if you can help please email me!! |
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| 150 pooge, on Mar 12, 2009 9:02:18 pm GMTThat worked like a charm. I was having the same problem with Windows XP. When I booted up I would get to the desktop screen, but there were no icons. The mouse moved fine but nothing to click. When I pressed ctl-alt-del and deleted the explorer folder and rebooted everything worked fine. Thank you thank you thank you. |
| 154 satish, on Mar 18, 2009 11:49:17 am GMTSo much thanks to you... you are really great....i so much haapy coz i tired to format system more times |
| 156 Krish, on Mar 24, 2009 2:17:23 am GMTThanks pla. A great help.. It worked |
| 158 sooote, on Apr 1, 2009 10:19:02 am BSTHey jay can u help me out a bit more..there is no explorer.exe folder in the image file execution options folder..if its another folder do tell me please.. | 159 Jay, on Apr 1, 2009 10:32:41 am BSTSearingWolfe suggested the following for those that cannot find explorer.exe in the registry. I do not know if it works or is an appropriate solution. Good luck.
EVERYONE THERE IS A MUCH EASIER SOLUTION!! I found that i did not have explorer.exe in the registry, and I have the same problem. When i log on, i can only see my wall paper. Here's the solution. Do a Ctrl+Alt+Delete and look in the process tab. click image name to organize it in alphabetical order. you will see explorer.exe somewhere in there. Click it and click End Process at the bottom right. If you do not see explorer.exe then skip this step. Now click the Applications tab and you will see 3 buttons at the bottom called End Task, Switch To, and New Task. Click New Task. A small window will open up that says Create New Task. In the white bar type in explorer.exe and you will have your desktop back. Sadly, you will have to do this every time you log on, if you have a system restore point before this desktop problem, then do a system restore.
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To reply to the message of SearingWolfe Please click on the link below: | 178 babylatina, on Jun 11, 2009 9:59:59 pm BSTI did everthing like you said but it gave me an error message that saids: ONLY PART OF A READPROCESSMEMORY OR WRITEPROCESSMEMORY REQUEST WAS COMPLETE. what can i do from here please help.thank you. |
| 179 Sandy, on Jun 20, 2009 6:19:15 am BSTI just wanted to say thank you thank you sooo much i was going crazy because my computer was my life. when that happend i was realy upset and i did what you wrote and it worked thank you soo much!:) |
| 183 J, on Jul 5, 2009 9:04:37 am BSTOmg thankyou i thought i would have to buy a new computer! |
| 191 norm, on Aug 26, 2009 6:15:13 pm BSTThank you jay for the info on the fast fix for the windows xp worked great |
| 192 lepoo7, on Aug 27, 2009 12:52:23 am BSTMy computer won't let me use ALT, CTRL, DEL. and it will freeze up if i try to use safe mode. i tried to reinstall windows, it freezes during the process. any ideas? | 200 GG, on Sep 15, 2009 11:46:10 pm BSTI am having the same issue...
Been cleaning viruses for two weeks now. Each time I think the viruses are gone, but they come back.
Now when I boot up, windows xp only shows the wallpaper. Booting in safe mode gives the blue screen of death. Ctrl Alt Del does not launch anything. I can't right click, left click, get into DOS, see or do anything.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! -GG | 201 GG, on Sep 16, 2009 12:33:21 am BSTHello - First let me say this is a great forum. Thank you everyone who has offered advice. Unfortunately, I am having similar issues that have been reported.
When I start my Windows XP machine, I am able to login. It starts to login and then quickly logs me out. Upon the 2nd try, I can see my wallpaper with no icons, start menu, task bar, etc. Like others have reported, CTRL ALT DEL, CTRL SHIFT ESC, Function Keys, Right Clicking, etc. has no action. No matter what keys I press, I am stuck looking at my wallpaper.
I have tried to reboot in safe mode, but I receive the dreaded "blue screen of death".
FYI...I recently had several spyware viruses that I removed with McAfee, SpywareTerminator, SuperSpyware and Malware Bytes. I tried running the vundo fix and the Sricam fix, but neither found any issues. I ended up needing to clean my registry because at the time, none of my executables worked. 2 days after resolving all of that mess, this new issue started. I'm guessing it is also virus related.
I don't have the ability to download anything or access the registry, so I am afraid that nothing I have read on-line thus far will help me.
Does anyone have any advice for me? I would really prefer not to reload XP, as I don't have my original MS Office install CD anymore.
I'm sure you are sick of replying to this thread and I appologize if I am overlooking the answer that will help my particular situation. I would appreciate any help that can be provided. Thank you for your support! ** |
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| 204 Gwenners, on Oct 9, 2009 12:42:47 am BSTHello
I have read this whole blog, and at first Crl, alt, del wasn't working, I finally got task manager to come up, and then tried starting new task "explorer" and explorer.exe and nothing is happening. I also tried the regedit idea and nothing came up. Is there anything else I could try?
Please help.
Thanks | 207 This worked for me, on Oct 28, 2009 9:26:24 pm GMTA friend's laptop experienced the problem with no icons after starting up with her desktop wallpaper. I tried all the different solutions here and none worked. Got to Ctrl-Alt-Del bringing up the task manager and tried most if not all the solutions and nothing worked.
What finally worked for me, not sure if will work for others but I used the new task to run bring up a command prompt. Type cmd in the run field. In the cmd prompt went to c:\Windows, found the Explorer.exe file and deleted it. Figured if I was already to the point of giving up and just reformatting and reinstalling Windows XP, would do something harebrained. Anyway, after deleting the Explorer.exe, I went back to the run command and typed explorer. Using del Explorer.exe in the command window.
The screen at first brought up the System Restore but it had no restore points it could use, then after closing the System Restore screen, the icons started back up. I've restarted the system and it boots up fine. Only thing I can guess at is that the Explorer file was either corrupted or whatever and the system replaced it.
May work for those that get the explorer error message or not. |
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| 205 rahulvr1, on Oct 13, 2009 7:09:57 pm BSTDEAR FRIENDS I FACED THIS PROBLEM & I FOUND A PERFECT SOLUTION JUST CONSIDERING VIRUS IS THE ONLY REASON OF THIS PROBLEM AND ONLY SOLUTION IS TO RESTORE WHICH CAN SIMPLY BE DONE BY CLICKING CT-ALT-DL AND IN NEW TASK BAR JUST WRITE msconfig WHERE U GET THE OPTION OF RESTORE JUST DO THE RESTORE AND RUN A GOOD ANTI VIRUSE AFTER RESTORING AND DELETE NEW RECENT DOWNLOADED SUSPICIOUS DATA ...CHEERS | 206 PJ, on Oct 23, 2009 5:43:47 pm BSTThat would be all well and good but when I did that it told me that system restore had been disabled by the administrative group, whatever that is. Also it said I did not have administrative privileges to make changes and I am the only one on this computer. I couldn't figure out how to log in as administrator when there is nothing on my deskktop. Calgon take me away !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| 161 Donny, on Apr 14, 2009 7:27:38 pm BSTEverything was understood until you got to "had an explorer.exe file in folder that you deleted". If you deleted it , how can you see it? and what is an entry in root of image file? |
| 163 ummyusuf, on Apr 15, 2009 2:19:35 pm BSTAfter I click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE under name it said defaul type: REG_SZ Date: Not set what do i do after this |
| 164 Donny, on Apr 15, 2009 10:04:27 pm BSTI did everything you suggested, but when I got to "current version" I had no Image file execution options to choose from..... |
| 169 Donny, on Apr 17, 2009 9:17:58 pm BSTThank you Jay for the fix. I went to regedit, and followed the steps. Deleted explorer.exe file, restarted and all my icons, toolbar, and start menu appeared. | 181 norman, on Jun 27, 2009 5:11:55 pm BSTHi, Your previous email said you could not found image... folder. I could not find it either. How do you fix the problem? Did you find the folder at different ways. Many thanks! Norman |
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| 180 Luis, on Jun 23, 2009 11:45:58 pm BSTThanks jay its working fine :) |
| 182 Craven, on Jul 2, 2009 5:18:54 pm BSTJay you rock!!! Hours of research and unsuccessful solutions ... and your solution was easy and worked perfectly!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! |
| 184 lee, on Jul 15, 2009 4:43:04 am BSTThank you very much for the information. I have tried to overcome this problem for a week, and I tried almost everything which did not solve the problem. Now I got the problem solve . Thanks again. |
| 189 SAGAR, on Aug 18, 2009 5:46:40 pm BSTHey,wen i m typing explorer.exe as u said den its showing me a microsoft problem.wat to do?? pls help fast.. |
| 193 chakr, on Aug 27, 2009 1:14:26 am BSTI am also having the problem of no icons on the desktop except for the background wall paper. I thought your answer would work, when i typed regedit in the new task it brings up a new window saying windows can not open this file. What do u want to do ? use the web service to find the appropriate program or select from the program list.
Any help would be appreciated. |
| 194 chakr, on Aug 27, 2009 1:14:27 am BSTI am also having the problem of no icons on the desktop except for the background wall paper. I thought your answer would work, when i typed regedit in the new task it brings up a new window saying windows can not open this file. What do u want to do ? use the web service to find the appropriate program or select from the program list.
Any help would be appreciated. |
| 195 bruddakeet, on Aug 28, 2009 3:10:41 am BSTHey Jay, Thank you very much...it worked..after 4 hours of reading blogs,this finally worked. Anyone looking to fix this problem try this it worked for me.....and I can't say this enough...THANK YOU JAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 199 Pete, on Sep 8, 2009 1:44:02 am BSTA slightly scary approach (deleting bits out of the registry???) but worked perfectly.
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| 186 Bigrick, on Jul 26, 2009 2:54:22 am BSTTypiing in "explorer.exe" fixed my windoze 2000... thanks |
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| 49 solmolu, on Sep 27, 2008 8:52:44 pm BSTOh wow, thanks bunches. The other solutions didnt really make sense to me because i they were asking me to do things when i couldnt do anything with my computer, but your solution really made some sense, and WORKS! well, the last part was a bit unclear, so, ill clarify it a bit for anyone who still has this problem. Start up your computer, and while the computer is still black and it shows you all of those numbers and stuff, press F8. Then, browse through all of the options and select starting with Safe Mode. This might take some time, so don't get discouraged. After thats done, X out of that thing that pops up, and wait for your screen to load. Then go to start -> all programs -> accesories -> system tools(im translating the option from my computer so, this might not be the exact wording) -> system restore. Then, pick a point from before you had any of this nonsense and wait for your computer to do its magic, and soon you will be free of it =D |
| 86 kee kee, on Nov 21, 2008 1:39:32 am GMTThank you very much this really did work. thanks a bunch |
| 88 dada, on Nov 29, 2008 7:19:20 am GMTI have same problem and i tried ur soln but in safe mode also nothing appear but black screen.if u know how to do it in safe mode with command promote pls help me |
| You were having a login error and I am sorry I wasn't a member a the time or else I could have helped you repair your registry/login.
Rolling back your system restore, or reverting to old settings is NOT a fix, I repeat, it is NEVER a fix. Rewinding time merely means that IF you don't repeat the same mistake (and if you never find out what the problem is, you never know the mistake to avoid) then you won't encounter a problem. It's rare that it actually solves anything permanently. Also clutters up the hard drive space. Can you say frequent defrags and hard on the hard drive?
So in the future, don't accept the old "format/system restore/rollback/reinstall" option.
There is always a better and more reliable option to permanently deal with the problem.
Have a good day! | 118 hheck, on Feb 1, 2009 4:37:08 am GMTI was having same problem, whats the fix? hh |
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| 95 ryan, on Dec 12, 2008 7:35:10 am GMTAfter start up, i login, and only wallpaper appear. have tried your suggestions, F8 and nothing, tried everything, and still nothing |
| 109 daisey, on Jan 18, 2009 11:30:30 pm GMTChallanged
Tried many things. Your safe mode start and system restore corrected problem
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| 197 Mines001, on Aug 31, 2009 9:05:18 pm BSTI must thank you!!!! this actually worked!!! i didnt expect it to, because it came off of the internet, but it did!!! Thank You!!! |
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| 185 fixed it, on Jul 15, 2009 6:14:55 pm BSTOkay i have windows vista so i dont know if its works the same for xp... but start the task manager (ctrl+alt+delete), click start new task & type: explorer thats all nothing else & it should work. |
| 203 StevieG, on Oct 1, 2009 9:23:52 pm BSTHi all,
I helped a friend with this problem and tried many of the suggested fixes (all kinds of spyware / virus scanners ect.). Finally the problem was solved in a very surprising way!! We found that on the desktop there was a folder that was containing a lot of stuff, all together 59gigs!!). Removing this folder solved the problem. So apparently this big folder on the desktop was the reason for the problem in this case. I don't know what is the limit of desktop content size before it can cause a problem, but if you have any big folders or files there it may be worth trying to move them somewhere else.
Hope this can help some of you:-) |
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