The run command to bring up windoows?

[ras90]

Hi, i am going to restore my PC  back to factory settings, in order to get rid of a few problems, however last time i did this when the PC  went to load up (once it had finished) it stopped loading at the point where my backgornd had appeared and nothing else. So only a picture of the defualt xp background was up with no icons or windows toolbar.

At this point last time i phoned a pc help phone number (very expensive) and they told me the run command to insert to bring up the winsdows toolbar and once inserted the PC  loaded up as normal and their were no more problems ever.

so what im asking is for the run command to do this, i can rememeber it involves the words windows and system 32 i think.
Thankyou for the help.

[Jonas Wauters]

well if you only have you wallpaper.
You have to press ctrl+alt+del
Then go to file (right top) -> new task.
there you have to type explorer(.exe).
Hopes this helps you out.

Jonas

[patio]

How are you restoring this machine exactly ? ?

[ras90]

with my recovery disks

[patio]

Then the only shortcuts that will be on the desktop are the ones created when the machine was a day old...

Any programs and data stored after that are gone.

[ras90]

i no mate, but when i did it before their were ZERO oicns, not even my computer, the comp didnt load up properly if you get me, the backgorund pops up butnothing else so i need the command to kick start the windows toolbar at the bottom

[Jonas Wauters]

i no mate, but when i did it before their were ZERO icons, not even my computer, the comp didnt load up properly if you get me, the backgorund pops up butnothing else so i need the command to kick start the windows toolbar at the bottom

Well that is the explorer command.

well if you only have you're wallpaper.
You have to press ctrl+alt+del
Then go to file (right top) -> Click new task.
there you have to type explorer(.exe). And hit Enter.
Hopes this helps you out.

Jonas

That's the one that controls the toolbar, desktop icons, explorer,...
Just give it a try it would surprise me if it wouldn't work.

Jonas

BTW: I'm assuming that you have win XP.

[patio]

BTW: I'm assuming that you have win XP.

Or a copy...

[ras90]

i no mate, but when i did it before their were ZERO icons, not even my computer, the comp didnt load up properly if you get me, the backgorund pops up butnothing else so i need the command to kick start the windows toolbar at the bottom

Well that is the explorer command.

well if you only have you're wallpaper.
You have to press ctrl+alt+del
Then go to file (right top) -> Click new task.
there you have to type explorer(.exe). And hit Enter.
Hopes this helps you out.

Jonas

That's the one that controls the toolbar, desktop icons, explorer,...
Just give it a try it would surprise me if it wouldn't work.

Jonas

BTW: I'm assuming that you have win XP.

yes i do have xp mate, its just that i want to be 100% sure as if it goes wrong my PC is nailed, at the moment when i insert that command it brings up a box with my info in (my comp etc but if i do it in the scenerio i have given, will it bring up that box or allow the comp to load normally?

[Jonas Wauters]

What?
If you use the explorer command at the moment (when the toolbar is there) you get a windows with you're systeminfo?
What happens when you type systeminfo?

Jonas

[ras90]

What?
If you use the explorer command at the moment (when the toolbar is there) you get a windows with you're systeminfo?
What happens when you type systeminfo?

Jonas

what i mean is that when i type that a window appear that shows by c drive and all the others ike d,e and f drives, however what im saying is that i need the command to make the bar at the bottom of my PC  appear that says start and goes along the bottom of my screen plz

[Jonas Wauters]

If you really want to test it:
1 ) Press ctrl+alt+del
2 ) go to processes and hit E repeatly until you see explorer.exe
3 ) click end process
4 ) Click yes
5 ) Close everything including task manager.
That is what you have at the other computer wright?
5 ) Press ctrl+alt+del (again)
6 ) Click file
7 ) Click New task (Run...)
8 ) Type explorer(.exe)
9 ) Hit enter.

Is this what you want?

Jonas

[CBMatt]

BTW: I'm assuming that you have win XP.

Or a copy...

I'm wondering about this myself.

[ras90]

ye i do

[Jonas Wauters]

So your problem is solved?

Jonas