Help No Icons... nothing works??

[VipFREAK]

Hi, this is an urgent message! I have Win XP on and HP laptop. I was working in Photoshop just using the program and all of a sudden it had the "blue screen of death" and restarted. When it loaded back up none of the icons show up and nothing loads in the system tray. I try to start anything other than the directories and nothing works??!?!? Please help !!!!! I tried to do Reg cleaner but that didn't do anything and I can't get the virus scan to work. I tried to get to sys. restore but it doesn't work?!? Thanks for your help!

Nick

[Steve R Jones]

Boot into safe mode via the F8 key and select Last Known Good Configuration..(something to that effect)

[muno]

'Last known good configuration' will NOT help at that point anymore. The computer has been succesfully booted after failure, and it will do nothing.

[VipFREAK]

Thanks for the help I was able to get to safe mode and then do a system restore. When it rebooted to finish the restore it sat there so I forced a reboot. Then I went back to safe mode thinking it didn't work but it actually restored it. Gotta love windows... ::rolling eyes:: Anyways, everythings back to normal. Thanks again.

Nick

[LeftCoast]

I recently had the same problem on a pc, and it turns out the video card supports 2 monitors, and the os's "desktop"(all icons) had been moved to the secondary video card, but the system still saw the primary vid card as having the os's desktop upon boot-up.

Right click on the blank desktop, properties, settings, and see if two monitors show up. If not, your search for answers continue...


EDIT: FORGET IT, YOU'RE DONE.

[VipFREAK]

Yeah that's no where near the problem I had but I've experienced something like that too.

Nick