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Luigi

Seriously.
Like 15 minutes ago, my computer suddenly shutdown. When I rebooted, I found out the gay WGA notifications were installed, which I fixed in 5 minutes. I've waited long, very long, for my taskbar to show up and my precious desktop to show up. This has happened before, but I system restored to solve it. I'm guessing its the gay automatic updates.

What I have tried:
Terminating explorer.exe and opening a new one (Fail)
Rebooting (fail)
Waiting (fail)

What I do not want to try
Reformatting (Problem would come back)
System restore (precious data)

~Pineapple! · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:50 pm Post subject:

Same happened to me. The taskbar came back after a while though.

Nick :3 · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:54 pm Post subject:

Reformatting would most likely help

Luigi · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:03 pm Post subject:

Saifallofjmr · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:30 pm Post subject:

ctrl+alt+del -> file->new-> explorer.exe

Ndure · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:13 pm Post subject:

If you can't seem to fix it and there's nothing left but to format and you don't want to lose you data, just burn a live CD of ubuntu, boot it up, and backup your files onto a thumb drive or something.

Luigi · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:58 pm Post subject:

Saifallofjmr · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:10 pm Post subject:

its your only option aside from a reformat.

compactwater · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject:

This may solve your problem:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4592369_problem-windows-xp-taskbar-disappears.html

Here's an explorer.exe from Windows XP SP3.
http://89.248.164.20/datei/explorer.exe
sha1: b63242be5a6339682ebbb29a0455755c866ea338
md5: 58794fcece72284e74440b4f11cd62ca

Madman · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:04 pm Post subject:

It's also possible you have corrupt system files.

I'd go ahead and stick in your Windows disc, boot from CD, and run the system file check/recovery module.

Luigi · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:10 pm Post subject:

Madman · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject:

FYI Try these things, don't just tell us they won't work without trying it.

Ndure · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:44 am Post subject:

Try boot up your XP installation CD and do a repair installation.

Luigi · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 2:45 pm Post subject:

Benji · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:30 pm Post subject:

I had it too a year or 2 ago. I scanned my computer for viruses with AVG and it found a file called rrss.dll or something, I can't remember it very well. Anyways, I deleted it and rebooted. My taskbar was back then. It's somewhere in System32

I know it sounds a lot like the fake hal.dll story, but this is real.