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Hi everyone, i,m new to this forum & have a problem thats got me baffled.My daughter has a laptop which has Windows Vista. When she switches on vista opens as it should with desktop showing all icons as it should...then icons & taskbar dissapear..seconds later they re appear. This happens 2/3 times then all that is showing is the wallpaper. Any ideas::

 

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It sounds like the explorer process is crashing and restarting, then crashing.

Go into safe mode and check in *event viewer* under System (if you can use the computer in safe mode).

Running a virus scan / malware scan in safe mode might give you a clue.

Also, a system restore might help.

 

As an XP user with no experience of Vista, i'm only summising...

Could it be as simple as the task bar has been hidden? If the mouse starts off where the task bar SHOULD be, then it will pop up and down a few times and then settle.

Unless you mean the ONLY thing showing is the wallpaper and no icons AT ALL and NO taskbar.... in which case i'm with BlueRinse. explorer.exe should be running in your process list. If not then there's your problem!

Good luck - hate those niggly problems
SK

 

Thanks Bluerinse, have tried running virus scan in safe mode but "unable to run in safe mode" I will look at event viewer

 

Thanks Simonkn, it is only wallpaper...going to try Bluerinse's suggestion

 

Hi again Bluerinse, can,t even access safe mode anymore. I re-booted from disc..Vista(Home Basic) loaded, even updates (all 89 of them) but as soon as i restarted the same problem, but this time it goes straight to the options "start in safe mode,start windows normally etc etc. then goes through the motions of attempting to start Windows then back to the options screen....baffled. Even tried loading Vista(Home Premium) Same result

 

Cant even access "safe mode" now Sparky

 

If you have multiple profiles on the machine.

What happens if you login as yourself?

 

I tried repair but "cannot automatically repair" message came up.Somebody told me hard drive could be damaged!