Windows boots to desktop with no icons, no taskbar

When I start Windows 7 only the wallpaper shows up, there are no icons or task bar. This is a newer HP desktop computer, only 4 months old and has very little use and almost nothing loaded on it. The problem is intermittent. Somethings it boots normally with full icons and taskbar (but the...

I just cant seem to figure out why on my 2nd monitor (which is the main one) My taskbar slightly covers my Desktop Icons. I just cannot seem to get it to not do it. Only way to fix it is to not use the Align to Grid. But then all Icons have to be aligned by hand. One option was to adjust the...

Every time my pc boots some icons on the desktop refresh and fill slowly. When I disable the server service the problem disappears, but I need that service as I share files with other people. How can I solve the problem so that some of my desktop icons will not refresh every time the pc boots?...

Desperate situation here... I have WIN7 SP1. After logon the desktop is black with no icons. There is no taskbar, no start button. The shortcuts WIN+R, WIN+E, WIN+F, etc are not working. The problem is also there in safe mode. I read many things about explorer.exe being corrupted or...

Hello All, I have gone through a number of posts on this problem and tried them but they did not work for me. Here is my problem: Yesterday a user complained that there laptop had slowed down in recent days. I went ahead and ran msconfig the I deleted most of the programs that were running on...