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no task bar, no system tray, no icons. Just the background image.
Ok, when I booted the inspirion 8600 laptop this afternoon, the log on screen came up, clicked on my icon, it started up. then the background image came up. But nothing else came up at all. just my cursor. that's it. THere's no icons, system tray, start up button, tray bar. etc. everthing is GONE. the problem is that the laptop is not MINE. it belongs to my best friend's girlfriend.!!!
sleepy guy
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Posted January 14th, 2007 17:00
Once booted and logged in hit "atl+ctrl+del" to bring up the security screen. Open task manager and wait a minute. If nothing shows up "run" "explorer.exe" which should bring your full desktop back.
You could also go into safe mode and try a system restore, in the hopes that it was a windows shutdown issue. Try the above first.
If all else fails give her a big hug and a kiss. And say sorry :)