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kyle88

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    Screen black, wheres my toolsbar, icons and stuff?
    « on: July 29, 2008, 11:06:44 AM »
    Im on a hp computer that has  been running vista for over a year and the other day when we started it the screen was black except for the my documents window.I tried restarting and playing with control panel, but it didnt help.What should I do?Screen shot below.







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      Re: Help Me
      « Reply #1 on: July 29, 2008, 11:46:46 AM »
      i also tried system restore, uh somebody help me please
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      Re: Screen black, wheres my toolsbar, icons and stuff?
      « Reply #2 on: July 29, 2008, 01:58:35 PM »
      What happened prior to this ? ?
      Any new hardware or software installed recently ? ?
      Have you attempted a System Restore ? ?
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        Re: Screen black, wheres my toolsbar, icons and stuff?
        « Reply #3 on: July 30, 2008, 10:50:32 PM »
        yep i tried a system restore but it didnt help. I dont want to reinstall and macaffe says there is no malicous software installed but i did download a couple ebooks a day prior to when this happened
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        Re: Screen black, wheres my toolsbar, icons and stuff?
        « Reply #4 on: July 31, 2008, 10:14:48 PM »
        How are you running all those programs, since you can see "My Documents" window only?
        Did you try Safe Mode?
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          Re: Screen black, wheres my toolsbar, icons and stuff?
          « Reply #5 on: August 01, 2008, 08:20:03 AM »
          Hi, i have a dell xps210 vista premium,4 1yr now.
          and exactly the same thing happened to me
          last week? it took a few attempts at system restore
          point but luckly it worked. I know this isnt much help
          just thought id let you know it happened to my P.C.
          hope you sort it ...P....
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            Re: Screen black, wheres my toolsbar, icons and stuff?
            « Reply #6 on: August 03, 2008, 02:23:40 AM »
            Fortunately I know zero about Vista, but it looks like Explorer.exe isnt running. If this works in Vista, try to hit CTRL ALT DELETE and then click on File....NewTask(RUN) and type in explorer.exe and hit OK. Should allow you to get to your usual if it works in Vista.
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