i just reinstalled windows xp home (reformat and all) and my icons for "my computer ", "my network places ", etc. are not on the desktop, only...
i actually had a problem like this once. what happened for me was explorer was not starting. what i did was hit ctrl+alt+del to get the task...
i have a fairly old computer and i just got windows xp home and installed it on there and it has all sorts of wierd conflicts some of my old...
when you say "start disk" do you mean the install cd that came with windows or one of those floppy disks(the emergency boot disk or whatever)?...
i want to format my hd and windows wont let me. i've tried right clicking the hd --> format and doing "format c:" in dos and it always says that...
the first time i installed it, i dont remember if i was running an av program. but the second time, i was running mcafee and a registry monitor.
I just reinstalled windows xp, after formatting my hard drive, and i started to download the updates from microsoft.com. There was this one...
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