Righto, so, for the fir... Actually the secondth time in my entire existence I've been unable to solve my own problems via the use of google, this of course is quite the devastating blow and my pride is still bleeding, but I accept that even google isn't perfect. My personal disaster aside, I need your help.
The problem occurred yesterday, in the following manner.
I did a critical update via Windows 7s own update manager and of course I paid no attention to the contents. My computer turns on, on it's own, at 7:20 as always, and I log in, realizing now that all my icons are invisible, and my start menu is unavailable. This bugs me, so I figured it might be the explorer.exe process even though I don't see how that can be as the icons in essence are still there, or their text is, and the start bar is also there, it's just not very functional without the start menu. Regardless, I shut down the explorer.exe process and reboot it via the use of task manager. No effect. I pull out some hair that I wasn't using anyways and sigh deeply, muttering to my self as I do a system restore that sets me back 2 days. As you may have guessed, this left me almost bald, or in other words, it did nothing.
At this point I start googling like my life depended on it. See my computer is a year old, and it came with windows Vista, of which I was no big fan, and I bought my windows 7 via microsoft and simply upgraded it, and reformatting would force me to reacquire EVERYTHING, which I'm sure is a problem most of you are not unfamiliar with, but regardless it would take me days, literally, to get my computer back together, especially so, since all my games are bought and downloaded via steam, which means I would have to re-download them one at a time. Which could take days depending on my luck.
I can add that using google I found that people who had the same symptoms as I, where mostly people who had in some way managed to shut down their explorer.exe process and only needed to restart it, I've been through at least 40 threads that all end up in people cheering for whoever told them to open task manager, and run the explorer.exe process which unfortunately means that the one or two people who had the same problem as my self are drowned out.
But! I have faith in you people, so help me out here, pretty please. I could add all kinds of info here but really, if it's needed just ask for it, I'll be paying a close eye to this thread as this problem is severely limiting my ability to do both my school and non-school related work.
P.S I just noticed I can't right click on the desktop either, don't know how I missed that.
The problem occurred yesterday, in the following manner.
I did a critical update via Windows 7s own update manager and of course I paid no attention to the contents. My computer turns on, on it's own, at 7:20 as always, and I log in, realizing now that all my icons are invisible, and my start menu is unavailable. This bugs me, so I figured it might be the explorer.exe process even though I don't see how that can be as the icons in essence are still there, or their text is, and the start bar is also there, it's just not very functional without the start menu. Regardless, I shut down the explorer.exe process and reboot it via the use of task manager. No effect. I pull out some hair that I wasn't using anyways and sigh deeply, muttering to my self as I do a system restore that sets me back 2 days. As you may have guessed, this left me almost bald, or in other words, it did nothing.
At this point I start googling like my life depended on it. See my computer is a year old, and it came with windows Vista, of which I was no big fan, and I bought my windows 7 via microsoft and simply upgraded it, and reformatting would force me to reacquire EVERYTHING, which I'm sure is a problem most of you are not unfamiliar with, but regardless it would take me days, literally, to get my computer back together, especially so, since all my games are bought and downloaded via steam, which means I would have to re-download them one at a time. Which could take days depending on my luck.
I can add that using google I found that people who had the same symptoms as I, where mostly people who had in some way managed to shut down their explorer.exe process and only needed to restart it, I've been through at least 40 threads that all end up in people cheering for whoever told them to open task manager, and run the explorer.exe process which unfortunately means that the one or two people who had the same problem as my self are drowned out.
But! I have faith in you people, so help me out here, pretty please. I could add all kinds of info here but really, if it's needed just ask for it, I'll be paying a close eye to this thread as this problem is severely limiting my ability to do both my school and non-school related work.
P.S I just noticed I can't right click on the desktop either, don't know how I missed that.
My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Dell Inc. (Model number: MXG071)
- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600)
- CPU
- Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU - T8300 @ 2.40 GHz, 2.49 GHz
- Motherboard
- Built in
- Memory
- 4096MB RAM
- Graphics Card(s)
- 2x GeForce 8800M GTX "SLI Enabled"
- Sound Card
- Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy HD sound
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Generic PnP Monitor
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 x 1200
- Hard Drives
- 180 GB Sata.
- PSU
- "No clue, laptop"
- Case
- "Laptop"
- Keyboard
- Built in
- Mouse
- X7; Centrios
- Internet Speed
- 10 MB
