[chefman69]

This may seem like an odd problem....
I restrted my toshiba sattelite pro laptop running Vista Buisness........ It id everything up to the welcome screen and loading thats when my problem hit. I eneded up with a black screen with only my documents open. Now the thing is from my documents I can access the internet playmy games, get to the control pannel and everything but, I have no desktop!!! I didnt change any settings and when I go to my startup programs nothing looks out of the ordinary!
Its a wierd problem as you can see as my laptops completely functional but getting anoid at my black desktop!

[elnasty]

Right click on screen and what?

[chefman69]

nothing happens. The only window I can do anything is is the "my documents" window

[Jacee]

You can try this suggestion:

I've seen this happen a few times. The winlogon shell entry in the registry
contains the wrong information. Close the documents folder and open Task
Manager by hitting ctrl+shift+escape. On the applications tab, click 'new
task' and type regedit, then click ok. Expand the branches to reach:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Double click the shell string in the right pane and delete the current
value, replace it with just "explorer.exe" (no quotes). Click ok and close
the registry editor, then reboot the machine.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

[chefman69]

Worked like a charm!!!! How the h*%$l you knew that is beyond me but thanks so much!!!

[Jacee]

I'm glad it worked! I quoted Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP.
He's the one who knew