When I boot up Windows XP explorer.exe doesn't seem to be running, I press
contol alt deleate and then go new task, explorer.exe and it starts to work
for about one second then exits. What the heck am I supposed to do? I am
running Windows XP SP2 on a Pentium 4 1.79GHz with 768MB RAM.

In news:0380F5D8-D9A1-430F-88BC-5C08B3027DA5@microsoft.com,
Steven had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

See if this helps:

Missing Icons and Taskbar:
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general...s_taskbar.html

You might want to start with the restoration from the command line.

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