missing "Start-button" ... empty Desktop ... & can't right-click in the Desktop

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[TDK]

hello all

first of all, sorry it took me awhile to be back in this very brilliant forum ... perhaps i will ask for understanding from our beloved Admin that its very seldom or rare of me to come and visit the site. as usual, just like the rest of us ... just be so busy and pre-occupied lately 


nevertheless, the specs of my unit is the following:


Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2

Intel P4 CPU 2.26GHz 2.27GHz, 992 MB of RAM


now, my problem was that my unit has missing "Start-button" ... empty Desktop ... & can't right-click within the Desktop 


it all started when i received or accepted a link  that is down-loadable thru skype ... i was just caught by its promising notes which i accept that i really regret 


nevertheless, after the said incident ... i run lots of scan such as Antivir (avira), Norton, AVG, etc., and in fact, i even removed the hard-disk  and make it a "slave" in another computer just to be scan.  did i get result? yes! a lot ... and everytime i used different virus scan, it also shows different virus being captured.


after awhile of virus-scanning, i stop. i say, " ... hey! this is enough ... its already too much scanning ... ". and after i installed again the said hard-disk back to its unit, that it! its gone ... missing lots of stuff 


hope i can be assist on this big problem of mine though i still can used the said PC but its very tedious since i'm going to press the ctrl-alt-del keys so tha taskbar will popup then i can run the applications 


please help 

[Justin]

Hello TDK, good afternoon.

Have you tried repairing the OS?

Take care and God bless.

[raw_knee]

IIRC the taskbar is part of Explorer, right? Could you try running explorer.exe from the task manager and see what happens?

[TDK]

Hello TDK, good afternoon.

Have you tried repairing the OS?

Take care and God bless.

hi raw_knee & Justin

i tried running the explorer.exe thru the taskbar but it will popup only the explorer itself as no "Start"-button shows-up, as well, my Desktop are still empty and that i can't used the right-click of the mouse

missing "Start-button" ... empty Desktop ... & can't right-click in the Desktop

i can only navigate running programs i want to run by going to the 'folders' where the applications resides???


likewise, what's that IIRC, and what is that for??


hope i have explained it thoroughly so i can be assist once more in this predicament of mine:-\


cheers!

[Justin]

Hello TDK, good morning.

IIRC is "If I Remember Correctly".

I will ask you again, Have you tried repairing the OS?

Take care and God bless.

[sempron guy]

checked for programs that runs at start-up?

[TDK]

Hello TDK, good morning.

IIRC is "If I Remember Correctly".

I will ask you again, Have you tried repairing the OS?

Take care and God bless.

hello again Justin, as well, to u sempron guy 

and thanks for the new 'word' too Justin 

any way, i forgot to say that i still haven't repaired the OS if your trying to say to reformat it. but kindly advised if ever your emphasizing other ways in repairing the OS 

on the other hand, please also advised on how to run the programs that runs for start-up? 


cheers! 

[Justin]

Hello TDK, good evening.

Your welcome bro TDK,

Repairing is not formatting. Repairing will just repair your Windows folder. Here's how to repair --> Click ME

Update us here TDK.

Take care and God bless.

[trickpirata]

Repair your OS, there might some files corrupted(because of the virus removal).

[TDK]

Hello TDK, good evening.

Your welcome bro TDK,

Repairing is not formatting. Repairing will just repair your Windows folder. Here's how to repair --> Click ME

Update us here TDK.

Take care and God bless.

hello trickpirata and to u, Justin 


is their such a way i can the Windows-folder without going to that step of putting the cd? 


i mean is their any ways like i just go thru the gpedit, msconfig, mmc, regedit, dxdiag or command prompt environment?? hope you'll allow me to say but i prepare and more comfortable in going in those ways that i mentioned 


it may sound weird of me asking those stuff knowing i inquire and asked for help. but somehow, i'm a little bit pessimistic also since i'm not used in running Win XP installer most specially repairing stage. in fact, for me its easy to reformat or install than to repair since i guess it needs to be much more careful so the date will not be loss if ever its not backup well 


well, i'm also trying to point my idea and i'm sure everybody will agree that its better to open-up what i want to happen than to go and regret later 


happy weekend to all 


cheers! 

[Justin]

Hello TDK, good morning.

Ok, lets try other options. Try to download this tool "Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!". Extract the file and run the program. In the Taskbar Problems, click the drop-down arrow and look for "Hide or Show the Start button". Then click "Show Start Button".

Required:
Kindly take a screen shot of your desktop for us to see TDK and post it here.

Take care and God bless.

[TDK]

Hello TDK, good morning.

Ok, lets try other options. Try to download this tool "Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!". Extract the file and run the program. In the Taskbar Problems, click the drop-down arrow and look for "Hide or Show the Start button". Then click "Show Start Button".

Required:
Kindly take a screen shot of your desktop for us to see TDK and post it here.

Take care and God bless.

hi Justin 

please advise if the screenshot i'm going to capture ... is before i apply the Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! or after or both?

likewise, thanks really for all the assistance though i seldom nowadays update the inquiries i posted as i'm a little bit pre-occupied 


cheers! 

[Justin]

Hello TDK, good morning.

Before you apply the Taskbar Repair Tool Plus.

Take care and God bless.

[TDK]

Hello TDK, good morning.

Before you apply the Taskbar Repair Tool Plus.

Take care and God bless.

hello Justin and good day to all also 

here's the screenshot i took prior to applying the link u suggested. however, its still the same ... nothing happened to no changed at all 

missing "Start-button" ... empty Desktop ... & can't right-click in the Desktop

any other remedy? 


anyway, once again i would like to ask for understand to all the Admins that somehow it took me long to update my post. 


i just been so down and low as i'm jobless again 


hoping kind hearted individual will lend a hand giving me even temporary home-based task. cheers! 

[Justin]

Hello TDK, good morning.

Ok, it's not only the Start menu is missing but also the Taskbar. Use the Taskbar Repair Tool Plus again and look for "Taskbar is missing".

Take care and God bless.