Vista Problem. Please help!

I have Windows Vista Home Premium Edition. My desktop and toolbar/start menu
have gone missing. When I start my computer it comes on with the login screen
as normal. After I log in the screen goes black and My Documents loads but
the screen stays black. I can still use my laptop, but I have no desktop or
start menu at all. All I have is My Documents, and from there I can access
everything by going to my program files and loading things of Task Manager.

How can I get my Desktop and Start Menu back? I don't have a Vista disc as
it was already preinstalled on my laptop. Any help appreciated.

Thanks, Bankzy108 =]

Just a simple guess. How about right clicking the desktop, selecting View
and click "Show Desktop Icons".

"Bankzy108" <> wrote in message
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>I have Windows Vista Home Premium Edition. My desktop and toolbar/start
>menu
> have gone missing. When I start my computer it comes on with the login
> screen
> as normal. After I log in the screen goes black and My Documents loads but
> the screen stays black. I can still use my laptop, but I have no desktop
> or
> start menu at all. All I have is My Documents, and from there I can access
> everything by going to my program files and loading things of Task
> Manager.
>
> How can I get my Desktop and Start Menu back? I don't have a Vista disc as
> it was already preinstalled on my laptop. Any help appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Bankzy108 =]

"Bankzy108" wrote:
>I have Windows Vista Home Premium Edition. My desktop and
> toolbar/start menu have gone missing. When I start my computer it
> comes on with the login screen as normal. After I log in the screen
> goes black and My Documents loads but the screen stays black. I
> can still use my laptop, but I have no desktop or start menu at all.
> All I have is My Documents, and from there I can access
> everything by going to my program files and loading things of Task
> Manager.

Can you start explorer.exe?