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Broken start button, crashing explorer.
Not quite sure what has happened, Win 7 x64 has been running like a dream, I typically leave my computer on during the nite and have it set to a 2 hour sleep as to not waste to much electricity.
When I woke up this morning I noticed it was still on which was strange, after a reboot all of the pinned icons, icons in desktop etc have dissapered but the text that would be underneath them as normal is still there.
I can hover over where the icons are on the taskbar and the popup text appears fine, i.e it will tell me, ie firefox, winamp etc. I also looked in the My Computer, no HDD icons and the control panel also shows nothing, not even text.
Also the start button when i hover over it will 'light up' as usual but when clicked, does nothing, I can see the icons in my gadget box fine as I have shortcuts to games and HDD's etc in there.
To top it off explorer crashes and restarts every now and then.
I tried a system restore, which had no effect, system repair detected no issues.
I have scanned with ad aware and NOD32 and they have detected nothing, I have no idea what would cuase this issue, I thought it was icon related but obviously not with the broken start button and crashing explorer.
Apoligies for the long post, wanted to be clear and concise.
Any ideas?