- W2KPro loads but no icons/taskbar show.
- Posted by Stephanie on March 7th, 2004
One of the W2KPro machines in my office will go through
POST and appear to start normally. The background shows,
but no icons or taskbar are displayed. Also, at this point
the keyboard and mouse do not function. I have tried
booting in safe mode with the same result - the turquoise
background typical of the safe mode startup displays, but
no icons or taskbar and no "Safe Mode" in corners as
expected. Can somebody tell me what went wrong?
- Posted by Josef Stalin on March 7th, 2004
"Stephanie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5b9001c40489$3fd375b0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
Have you been running an up-to-date anti-virus program?
Have you booted up with a w98 floppy disk and looked around on the 'C'
drive? Is there any available space? Have you tried doing a chkdsk?
Another thing to try is fixboot and fixmbr. I also empty out the temp
directory (although I doubt that's the cause of your problem). These are the
first things I try when I faced with these type of unknown situation.
Uncle Joe
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- Posted by Stephanie on March 7th, 2004
Sonicwall with extremely up-to-date McAfee definitions, so
I don't think viruses are the issue. I made it run
Scandisk, and is says that Windows has modified the file
table (the HDD is FAT because we still are using some
MSDOS network apps), but I guess I'll try to run chkdsk
after booting to a command prompt. Am I on the right track?
Regards,
Steph
