Wyrmrider Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mduren2445 Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 I'm working on a computer which has evidently had Content realted changes including deactivating STARTlegit 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyrmrider Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyrmrider Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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