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Win XP Boots with no icons or Start
Name: gilcom1 Date: February 13, 2008 at 14:37:09 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: P4 /1Gig Product: Compaq
Comment:
XP boots up, you logon normally and then you get the background wallpaper; but that’s all you get just the wallpaper no ICONS or START button.
I have tried a few things but nothing works that does include a SYSTEM Restore from Safe Mode, Restore from the Windows Console and I even tried a reinstall from the Windows CD, and this nothing. Please note that once I did the reinstall windows just keeps rebooting over and over again.
This is not the Frist system with this problem; this is now the 3rd system. I have spoken to other in the Tech field, and they think as I do that this is a new Virus. The only thing that was loaded on the first system was an update from Adobe; for Flash. AS for the other I am unsure.
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