No start bar or desktop shortcuts showing but otherwise fine.

Just started up my laptop and after a scandisk I get to my log-o
screen. Cannot log on on my guest user, only the administrator.
when I log on I get the standard blue background and a mouse, nothin
else.
Ctrl+Alt+Del works as normal and taskmanager allows me to bring u
programs via a "new task" option so the computer seems to be workings a
usual apart from the icons?

Any help would be greatly apreciated thanks

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Hi,

From "new task" run regedit and expand the branches to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Double click the "shell" string in the right pane, replace the contents with
just

explorer.exe

Click ok, then close the registry editor and restart the machine (you can
use 'shutdown -r' to restart from the new task line).

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> Just started up my laptop and after a scandisk I get to my log-on
> screen. Cannot log on on my guest user, only the administrator.
> when I log on I get the standard blue background and a mouse, nothing
> else.
> Ctrl+Alt+Del works as normal and taskmanager allows me to bring up
> programs via a "new task" option so the computer seems to be workings as
> usual apart from the icons?
>
> Any help would be greatly apreciated thanks.
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H

The shell file already says explorer.exe? I have tried removing an
replacing it but there has been no-change

Cheer

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Also, having done some checking, its not working as well as i thought
All the media players dont work allthough streaming video content fro
the web is as usual. I can play games from the DVD drive too. Word work
and it remembers my passwords.

Also I've been suffering from some virus that calls up add pages o
inet explorer for a few months now and my norton anti-virus crashed
few weeks ago?

Dont know if that helps diagnose the problem

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I've also just tried all the tips for fixing XP with a simmilar problem
which dont seem to work


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