Need Help, Desktop On Xp System Behaves Funny

Please help,my pc a p4, 3.2, 512mb, 120 mb with nvidia gforce4 suddenly behaves very funny. After restarting the pc only half of my desktop icons apear visibly and is´t not possibele to execute any one of them. Even restarting again all the icons apear but non is executable. Only after possibele the 5th restart everithing seem to work normal?! I have Zonealarm pro and panda platinum latest version running. I did a virus check wich turned out ok. Any Clue????Please help

You might wanna try to wait a lil longer before cliking .. sometimes if you have a lot of programmes running at startup .. it may take a while for all to load before your icons are workable ..

In have a similar problem, I found the best solution is to startup as normal, and then logoff, and log back on again (without shutting down the pc). My theory is that the startup from logon runs a different script thingy, and it stops my explorer crashing. If you cant click on 'start', press ctrl-alt-delete and choose 'logoff computer' from the 'shutdown' tab.

Win XP has a rather annoying explorer, startup and searches are never ever gonna be good, best idea, is create a new profile and try that, its not likely to crash as easily, just share docuemtns/files as you need to

Yeah, when i upgraded my video card i had the same problem but mine also flickered and restarted atamaticaly. My problem was that one of my ram modules was faulty. but the pc still said that it had 512 once it was replaced it worked fine

Try reformating your computer... most of the time, reformating solves a lot of problems... If you don't want to go through that hassel, i do not know what to tell you :/

In have a similar problem,

 

I found the best solution is to startup as normal, and then logoff, and log back on again (without shutting down the pc). My theory is that the startup from logon runs a different script thingy, and it stops my explorer crashing. If you cant click on 'start', press ctrl-alt-delete and choose 'logoff computer' from the 'shutdown' tab.

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Thanks to all of you, i tried with your logoff/logon idea but i did not change a thing. Suddenly my pc behaves more funny, like my keyboard driver just changed. I think i will reformat the pc and install all the software new. hope it will help

I had a smilar problem like that but with the start menu what you do is go into safe mode and reinstall XP

I had a smilar problem like that but with the start menu what you do is go into safe mode and reinstall XP

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Hi, thanks for the response. I actually did reformat my harddisk and reinstalled windows xp. Took quiete a while to get everything back to normal. At least now the computer seems to work like before....

 

Thanks anyway