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Hatbox

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Since: Feb 3, 2009
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:25 am
Post subject: Black screen no icons
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I have Vista Home Basic (don't flame i got it for free =P)
I go to log on a couple days ago and I get nothing but a black screen
with no icons or taskbar. I can still open my task manager through
ctrl-alt-del and it says explorer and all my other programs are running,
but I can't access any of it b/c it won't let me open anything. So I
restart enter safe mode and do a system restore and get all my stuff to
show up, but today I logged in and the same thing happened; all i had to
do was restart and log back in this time.


Any idea what's going on? It's not a big deal b/c it only happens every
couple days, but I want my machine in good health and if I can fix it I
will.

Thanks in advance.

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RalfG

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:25 am
Post subject: Re: Black screen no icons
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Nothing wrong with Home Basic. Smile If the video card has dual outputs the
desktop may have flipped over to the secondary display for whatever reason.
Try installing updated drivers from the graphics card manufacturer (the
reinstallation is the point of the exercise, not the driver version). If the
problem persists you might have a hardware issue.

"Hatbox" wrote in message

>
> I have Vista Home Basic (don't flame i got it for free =P)
> I go to log on a couple days ago and I get nothing but a black screen
> with no icons or taskbar. I can still open my task manager through
> ctrl-alt-del and it says explorer and all my other programs are running,
> but I can't access any of it b/c it won't let me open anything. So I
> restart enter safe mode and do a system restore and get all my stuff to
> show up, but today I logged in and the same thing happened; all i had to
> do was restart and log back in this time.
>
>
> Any idea what's going on? It's not a big deal b/c it only happens every
> couple days, but I want my machine in good health and if I can fix it I
> will.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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arl

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Since: Feb 1, 2009
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:25 am
Post subject: Re: Black screen no icons
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"Hatbox" wrote in message

>
> I have Vista Home Basic (don't flame i got it for free =P)
> I go to log on a couple days ago and I get nothing but a black screen
> with no icons or taskbar. I can still open my task manager through
> ctrl-alt-del and it says explorer and all my other programs are running,
> but I can't access any of it b/c it won't let me open anything. So I
> restart enter safe mode and do a system restore and get all my stuff to
> show up, but today I logged in and the same thing happened; all i had to
> do was restart and log back in this time.
>
>
> Any idea what's going on? It's not a big deal b/c it only happens every
> couple days, but I want my machine in good health and if I can fix it I
> will.

I recently had this problem and fixed it simply by un-installing something
only problem was I cant remember what it was ... doh!!

Have you recently installed new hardware or even software .. most likely
software
let me know what it was and if it rings a bell i'll let you know which thing
it was
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arl

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:25 pm
Post subject: Re: Black screen no icons
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"RalfG" wrote in message

> Nothing wrong with Home Basic. Smile If the video card has dual outputs the
> desktop may have flipped over to the secondary display for whatever
> reason. Try installing updated drivers from the graphics card manufacturer
> (the reinstallation is the point of the exercise, not the driver version).
> If the problem persists you might have a hardware issue.
>
yes yes yes what this guy said

mine was set to extend the desktop onto screen 2
as soon as i disabled that, i never got the problem again

bow i just have the 2nd screen set to clone so that both screens display the
information

mine is only a computer, 2nd display is the tv so i can watch movies etc
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Hatbox

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:25 pm
Post subject: Re: Black screen no icons
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I just found out it is a problem with explorer.exe. I shut it down
through the task manager and restarted it manually and everything was
fine.

How would I go about repairing explorer.exe?

>
> I recently had this problem and fixed it simply by un-installing
> something
> only problem was I cant remember what it was ... doh!!
>
> Have you recently installed new hardware or even software .. most
> likely
> software
> let me know what it was and if it rings a bell i'll let you know which
> thing
> it was
> --
>
>
> Šarl

Only program I recently installed was DAEMON Tools Lite
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arl

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(Msg. 6) Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:25 am
Post subject: Re: Black screen no icons
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"Hatbox" wrote in message

>
> I just found out it is a problem with explorer.exe. I shut it down
> through the task manager and restarted it manually and everything was
> fine.
>
> How would I go about repairing explorer.exe?
>
>>
>> I recently had this problem and fixed it simply by un-installing
>> something
>> only problem was I cant remember what it was ... doh!!
>>
>> Have you recently installed new hardware or even software .. most
>> likely
>> software
>> let me know what it was and if it rings a bell i'll let you know which
>> thing
>> it was
>> --
>>
>>
>> Šarl
>
> Only program I recently installed was DAEMON Tools Lite
>
have you got 2 monitors or 1 monitor and a tv set up as extended desktops
try separating them if so and see if that changes anything

if not try getting the latest graphics drivers
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:25 pm
Post subject: Re: Black screen no icons
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Šarl;4218912 Wrote:
> "Hatbox" wrote in message

> >
> > I just found out it is a problem with explorer.exe. I shut it down
> > through the task manager and restarted it manually and everything
> was
> > fine.
> >
> > How would I go about repairing explorer.exe?
> >
> >>
> >> I recently had this problem and fixed it simply by un-installing
> >> something
> >> only problem was I cant remember what it was ... doh!!
> >>
> >> Have you recently installed new hardware or even software .. most
> >> likely
> >> software
> >> let me know what it was and if it rings a bell i'll let you know
> which
> >> thing
> >> it was
> >> --
> >>
> >>
> >> Šarl
> >
> > Only program I recently installed was DAEMON Tools Lite
> >
> have you got 2 monitors or 1 monitor and a tv set up as extended
> desktops
> try separating them if so and see if that changes anything
>
> if not try getting the latest graphics drivers
> --
>
>
> Šarl
>
> 306 Web Design Templates for just $15
> [URL="http://www.306templates.com"]http://www.306templates.com[/URL]
>
> ..

I updated me drivers a few hours before the most recent occurrence and
am running a single screen.
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:25 am
Post subject: Re: Black screen no icons
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"Hatbox" wrote in message

>
> Šarl;4218912 Wrote:
>> "Hatbox" wrote in message
>
>> >
>> > I just found out it is a problem with explorer.exe. I shut it down
>> > through the task manager and restarted it manually and everything
>> was
>> > fine.
>> >
>> > How would I go about repairing explorer.exe?
>> >
>> >>
>> >> I recently had this problem and fixed it simply by un-installing
>> >> something
>> >> only problem was I cant remember what it was ... doh!!
>> >>
>> >> Have you recently installed new hardware or even software .. most
>> >> likely
>> >> software
>> >> let me know what it was and if it rings a bell i'll let you know
>> which
>> >> thing
>> >> it was
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Šarl
>> >
>> > Only program I recently installed was DAEMON Tools Lite
>> >
>> have you got 2 monitors or 1 monitor and a tv set up as extended
>> desktops
>> try separating them if so and see if that changes anything
>>
>> if not try getting the latest graphics drivers
>> --
>>
>>
>> Šarl
>>
>> 306 Web Design Templates for just $15
>> [URL="http://www.306templates.com"]http://www.306templates.com[/URL]
>>
>> ..
>
> I updated me drivers a few hours before the most recent occurrence and
> am running a single screen.
>
it was definately graphics related when i had it
have you more than one output on your graphics card ?
whats it like when you use the other output?
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