Windows Xp Stuck On Wallpaper

[hey_suburbia]

After installing Windows updates and rebooting, I get stuck with just my background image loading up, no icons or taskbar....any ideas?

...before resorting to restore.

Thanks

[boyzeee]

have you tried booting to safe mode and then rebooting? sounds like a fault with explorer

edit....what updates did you install? any drivers?

[LTJBukem]

Stop....... Don't restore.....

Right click on your desktop> show desktop icons.....

Oh and get rid of that XP wallpaper, don't be a Micro$oft whore all your life.

Edit. Oops, sorry. You don't have a task bar? That's not good. When you visited Windows Update, did you install the video driver? You could try rolling back to previous driver.

[monkeyhead]

this happend to me when i instaled service pack1 and then tryed to us a crack to reactivate. Unforutntly system restore would not work so i had to resolve to format my harddisk. But i then started from scratch and partioned my hardisk.This is a good idea as you have a save backup

[Kunal]

System restore seems the best option to me here