| 1 problem need help, on Wednesday July 9, 2008 03:30:54 AMSame problem anyone help? Reply to problem need help | 2 challanged, on Wednesday July 9, 2008 11:16:06 PMWell 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. Reply to challanged | 48 shivakumar, on Saturday September 27, 2008 07:20:53 AMDear 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 Reply to shivakumar | 122 Pratibha, on Tuesday February 3, 2009 02:12:13 PMPress 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. Reply to Pratibha | 124 mahat, on Friday February 6, 2009 01:07:12 AMI 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 =( Reply to mahat | 136 Jay, on Saturday February 21, 2009 12:30:35 PMHi, 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 Reply to Jay | 142 rahul, on Sunday March 1, 2009 11:54:59 AMThat not work there is no explorer.exe Reply to rahul | 147 jtk, on Tuesday March 10, 2009 10:22:19 PMThere 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 Reply to jtk | 151 DLAdy3, on Friday March 13, 2009 07:36:05 PMI 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!! Reply to DLAdy3 |
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| 150 pooge, on Thursday March 12, 2009 09:02:18 PMThat 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. Reply to pooge |
| 154 satish, on Wednesday March 18, 2009 11:49:17 AMSo much thanks to you... you are really great....i so much haapy coz i tired to format system more times Reply to satish |
| 155 JackNubia, on Thursday March 19, 2009 12:14:07 AMWorked for me JUST fine! Thanks Jay! Reply to JackNubia |
| 156 Krish, on Tuesday March 24, 2009 02:17:23 AMThanks pla. A great help.. It worked Reply to Krish |
| 158 sooote, on Wednesday April 1, 2009 10:19:02 AMHey 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.. Reply to sooote | 159 Jay, on Wednesday April 1, 2009 10:32:41 AMSearingWolfe 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: Reply to Jay | 178 babylatina, on Thursday June 11, 2009 09:59:59 PMI 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. Reply to babylatina |
| 179 Sandy, on Saturday June 20, 2009 06:19:15 AMI 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!:) Reply to Sandy |
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| 161 Donny, on Tuesday April 14, 2009 07:27:38 PMEverything 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? Reply to Donny |
| 163 ummyusuf, on Wednesday April 15, 2009 02:19:35 PMAfter I click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE under name it said defaul type: REG_SZ Date: Not set what do i do after this Reply to ummyusuf |
| 164 Donny, on Wednesday April 15, 2009 10:04:27 PMI did everything you suggested, but when I got to "current version" I had no Image file execution options to choose from..... Reply to Donny |
| 169 Donny, on Friday April 17, 2009 09:17:58 PMThank 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. Reply to Donny | 181 norman, on Saturday June 27, 2009 05:11:55 PMHi, 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 Reply to norman |
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| 180 Luis, on Tuesday June 23, 2009 11:45:58 PMThanks jay its working fine :) Reply to Luis |
| 182 Craven, on Thursday July 2, 2009 05:18:54 PMJay you rock!!! Hours of research and unsuccessful solutions ... and your solution was easy and worked perfectly!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Reply to Craven |
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| 49 solmolu, on Saturday September 27, 2008 08:52:44 PMOh 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 Reply to solmolu |
| 86 kee kee, on Friday November 21, 2008 01:39:32 AMThank you very much this really did work. thanks a bunch Reply to kee kee |
| 88 dada, on Saturday November 29, 2008 07:19:20 AMI 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 Reply to dada |
| 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! Reply to TheParoxysm | 118 hheck, on Sunday February 1, 2009 04:37:08 AMI was having same problem, whats the fix? hh Reply to hheck |
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| 95 ryan, on Friday December 12, 2008 07:35:10 AMAfter start up, i login, and only wallpaper appear. have tried your suggestions, F8 and nothing, tried everything, and still nothing Reply to ryan |
| 109 daisey, on Sunday January 18, 2009 11:30:30 PMChallanged
Tried many things. Your safe mode start and system restore corrected problem
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