Thread: My desktop disappeared!

I'm using windows XP and I think I might have been hit with a virus or spybot because my windows desktop disappeared and even if I load taskmanager and start up explorer, it comes up and then turns off again.

This sucks!

can you elaborate? What do you mean by desktop? Like... your icons? Or you can't even cllick on the start menu?

Sure sounds like a virus. I always try to keep my last computer in the closet just in case.......

restart in safe mode, is the first thing

*COUGH*




get a mac

Originally Posted by The Natural

*COUGH*




get a mac

Cough. what he said. cough

Originally Posted by HeShootsNScores

can you elaborate? What do you mean by desktop? Like... your icons? Or you can't even cllick on the start menu?

What he said. We need more information. This happened to me once and it was just one file being currupted. Wasn't even a virus, these things happen sometimes. I just replaced the file and everything was cool.

It got into the Windows, just didn't show the icons or the menu. It was all blank. The key point is, can explorer.exe be run. I think that's the name of the service which opens all these things at the beginning of the session.

I blame LGK.com. You never what is floating around on that site.

here is what bailed me out. Great free program found a bunch of spyware and malware on my computer and torched it all.

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