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I'm working on a computer which has evidently had Content realted changes including deactivating START

legit xp on hp 500 SP-3 installed

nothing much on taskbar- not even clock

Shutdown, restart, my computer, control panel are on the desktop

No "All programs" etc

I can get to "program files"

I need to install antivirus and firewall

I installed hosts to control pop ups

There is admin and guest no other user accounts

It appears I will have to use safe mode or some other way to get to regedit

what might be the key

thanks

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I'm working on a computer which has evidently had Content realted changes including deactivating START

legit xp on hp 500 SP-3 installed

nothing much on taskbar- not even clock

Shutdown, restart, my computer, control panel are on the desktop

No "All programs" etc

I can get to "program files"

I need to install antivirus and firewall

I installed hosts to control pop ups

There is admin and guest no other user accounts

It appears I will have to use safe mode or some other way to get to regedit

what might be the key

thanks

read this http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1222025957

Bring up registry editor via the task manager (type regedit and Enter) There are 2 registry keys in the registry that are causing the problem. It affects the explorer.exe and iexplorer.exe files. This are the keys that need to be deleted... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\explorer.exe HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\iexplorer.exe Once these keys are deleted the desktop and internet explorer should come back to life.

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A couple of other points

I do not seem able to find taskmanger - maybe brain fade

but regedit is in System32

In Control Panel the Taskbar/ Start Page buttion gives the houglass but no action

I'm going to go to another coputer and print out the instructions

no way to minimise a page and get it back without a taskbar

thanks for the post

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Muduren2445

Thanks so much for the link

This time it turns out it was the EXTEND DESKTOP TO THIS MONITOR checkbox being checked problem in Display>settings

what a gotcha

Matrox Mellineum 8mb PCI card

no idea how the box got checked

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