Desktop Icons Missing

[James]

I keep getting a box.....top says EXPLORER, yellow
triangle with !.....An error has occured, Explorer will
now close... when I close, I have no more icons or start
menu. I only have my desktop background. Nothing works,
I have to restart and this vicious circle starts again.

HELP HELP

[Noel Paton]

try booting to Safe Mode - is that OK?
if so, then You may have a virus/spyware hijack

download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling
viruses are not present on your PC
http://download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/stinger.exe

- update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files.

Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the
CoolWebSearch hijacker.
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html

Use CWShredder, the removal tool:
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip
http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/CWShredder.exe
http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip

download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to
remove spyware, adware,
and other such nasties from your system.


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
or
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/Mar01/Mar27pmvp.asp

"James" > wrote in message
...
> I keep getting a box.....top says EXPLORER, yellow
> triangle with !.....An error has occured, Explorer will
> now close... when I close, I have no more icons or start
> menu. I only have my desktop background. Nothing works,
> I have to restart and this vicious circle starts again.
>
> HELP HELP