no desktop or icons in winxp normal or safe mode

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 05:41:44 -0700, "galerie"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>hello. I can't boot normally in winxp pro or in safe mode.
>It comes up to the desktop screen but nothing else. no
>icons or taskbar. I can't right click to see if active
>desktop is on or not. The weird thing is that i get a
>messsage saying new hardware found VIA Bus Master Drivers,
>insert cd to install new hardware. I put in the cd, it
>doesn't find it, i downloaded newer drivers off the net,
>still doesn't find it. Does anyone know what the problem
>would be. I really don't want to do a reinstall of the OS.
>I ran stinger to see if I had any viruses and did run
>spybot, I can do a few things through task manger but
>typing file new and then running.

Try pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del and in Task Manager select New Task and type
Explorer.exe to get the desktop to appear.

Peter Hutchison