Home page lost?

therewillbe

Hi,I am not very PC Techy .Here is the problem.No Home page with Icons,When I do get in via ctrl alt del buttons there is NO tool bar on bottom of page ! Any info will help.Thanks

yes chance

therewillbe wrote: »

Hi,I am not very PC Techy .Here is the problem.No Home page with Icons,When I do get in via ctrl alt del buttons there is NO tool bar on bottom of page ! Any info will help.Thanks

What do you mean by home page? The desktop with the icons? and no start menu?
What version of windows have you?

therewillbe

yes chance wrote: »

What do you mean by home page? The desktop with the icons? and no start menu?
What version of windows have you?

Yes No Start menu. Vista basic .

yoyo

Try move your mouse over the 4 corners of the screen, does the Taskbar appear then?

Nick

therewillbe

yoyo wrote: »

Try move your mouse over the 4 corners of the screen, does the Taskbar appear then?

Nick

No Nick

yoyo

Alt CTRL->Del then Start Task Manager then File>Run and type exporer.exe and hit ok. Does Windows explorer open then?

Nick

therewillbe

yoyo wrote: »

Try move your mouse over the 4 corners of the screen, does the Taskbar appear then?

Nick

No Nick

therewillbe

yoyo wrote: »

Alt CTRL->Del then Start Task Manager then File>Run and type exporer.exe and hit ok. Does Windows explorer open then?

Nick

No.

yoyo

Have you tried restarting the computer? It looks like your explorer.exe may have become corrupt somehow, maybe a virus/piece of malware or an anti virus program removed the wrong file. At any rate do you have a windows Vista recovery disc? Running a "Startup Repair" may help

Nick

yes chance

therewillbe wrote: »

No Nick

what is open in the left hand bottom corner?

yoyo

yes chance wrote: »

what is open in the left hand bottom corner?

Command prompt of some sort, looks like explorer is failing to load, so all windows go down to that point rather than the taskbar. cmd.exe is a seperate program to explorer

Nick

yes chance

yoyo wrote: »

Have you tried restarting the computer? It looks like your explorer.exe may have become corrupt somehow, maybe a virus/piece of malware or an anti virus program removed the wrong file. At any rate do you have a windows Vista recovery disc? Running a "Startup Repair" may help

Nick

can he restart if there is no start button? Uness hold down the power switch to switch off. then when it restarts is should give option of safe mode normal start etc if it restarts

yoyo

yes chance wrote: »

can he restart if there is no start button? Uness hold down the power switch to switch off. then when it restarts is should give option of safe mode normal start etc if it restarts

Can restart from Task Manager

Nick

therewillbe

Thanks again.I got it sorted!Dont know how but alls well.Thanks for your help again.

yes chance

therewillbe wrote: »

Thanks again.I got it sorted!Dont know how but alls well.Thanks for your help again.

glad you got sorted

Can restart from Task Manager

Nick

I do not have that option on my vista home premium.It is apparently not on vista

yoyo

yes chance wrote: »

glad you got sorted


I do not have that option on my vista home premium.It is apparently not on vista

Appologies for that, in that instance hold the power button for 10 seconds, machine off>Turn back on :P

Nick

yes chance

yoyo wrote: »

Appologies for that, in that instance hold the power button for 10 seconds, machine off>Turn back on :P

Nick

no problem was just pointing it out. The bat file on that link works on vista

Just make a batch file on your desktop with contents:
shutdown -r -t 00
and run it to restart your pc. Alternatively, if you want to shut down, replace “-r” with “-s”.
For n00bs: a batch file is just a text file with .bat extension which makes it executable.

I'm sure you know that but others may not and may be helpful for OP to have on his desktop

yoyo

I do appreciate there are better methods to shut down a machine but the occasional power off won't do much harm I don't think. Good call on the command line option though, that would have done the trick

Nick