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My computer crashed on me and when I restarted my computer desktop and start toolbars were missing along with my icons. Is there anyway of fixing this problem? I would appreciate it

Hya Rhino , welcome to PCHF.

Give this a try first:

Press ctrl/alt/del and then "file"/"new task (run)" , and in the run window type in:

sfc /scannow >press enter

Have you XP CD in youre drive, and it'll run itself, replacing any missing or damaged protected XP files.

sorry for the delay in reply unfortuntely I dont know my copy of xp is, is there any other way of resolving this problem I noticed something about hijack but doesnt work for me thanks

try pressing ctrl + alt + del and press file new task and type explorer.exe, see what that does n let me know thx dave

Try the sfc /scannow command anyway , and if it askes for the cd , direct it to the C:\windows\i386 folder instead.



And here are a couple of steps to try and run HijackThis. Follow them in order. If one step doesn't work, continue to the next step:

Step # 1

Rename HijackThis.exe to H.exe. Try a scan. If it works, post the log back here. If not, proceed to the next step.

Step # 2

Go to this link and download the 1.98.2 version of HijackThis.exe:

hijackthis1.98.2

Try a scan. If it works, post the log back here. If not, proceed to the next step.

Step # 3

Click here and download Itty Bitty Process Manager (IBProcMan.zip): ibprocman.

Unzip it to it's own directory and try running it - it will provide a 'taskmanager' like process viewer in which you can stop running processes. Don't stop any yet, just list all that it has so whe can check them and give advice. Post the list back here.

i typed in explorer.exe and the tasakbar flashed up for a sec and i couldnt access it

Have you also tried to run hijackthis?

And see if you can run Stinger on that pc , see below for a download link.