Explorer is running already - it's just that it's only a window. There is no taskbar, system tray, icons and apparently no way to see them. You have to imagine your machine with just wallpaper and an explorer window open - that's it! No tray, start menu, and no apparent way to get to it. I do agree it got hosed. Sorry to have taken this off topic- All I'm saying is it was or had to be the vnc install/un-install done in succession, because it was the last thing I did on the machine before it went south... thanks for your help, but I'm obviously going to have to re-build the machine.
--- James Weatherall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JimD, > > This isn't anything to do with VNC, I'm afraid. > > It sounds like something has trashed your XP > installation or user profile so > that explorer.exe isn't being run when you log in. > If you press > Control-Alt-Del and use Task Manager to run > explorer.exe, you'll probably > find that things look more normal. > > Regards, > > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > JimD > > Sent: 17 October 2005 14:01 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: No desktop icons, system tray, start menu > > > > I installed the latest vnc 4 free edition (server > and > > viewer) on a windows xp pc recently. Shortly > > thereafter, I un-installed vnc and now whenever I > > re-boot the machine there is only a "My Documents" > > folder automatically displayed. Wallpaper is > present, > > but no desktop icons, system tray, start menu, > etc. > > Is there any way to get the pc back to it's > original > > configuration? I tried a restore point in xp, but > to > > no avail. I'm guessing some services might still > be > > running or registry settings, but not sure. Any > help > > would be greatly appreciated! :-) > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > VNC-List mailing list > > [email protected] > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > > > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
