[ntollfree]

Morning,
On Friday I came home to find the computer was only displaying the desktop background. No icons taskbar or anything, CTRL-ALT-DEL makes the Desktop backgorund disappear for a few minutes but no task manager.
Could start it in Safe mode.
Lost patience with the whole affair and re-installed Vista from back up disks I'd created when I bought computer.
Now, I left the computer on over the last couple of nights to download all the WOW updates and each morning I've come back to find it just showing the wallpaper and no icons, taskbar, etc. I now have a mouse icon and can right click and access a menu but CTRL-ALT-DEL still doesn't work
Can't seem to find this problem with the CTRL-ALT-DEL issue anywhere else.
Does anyone have any ideas or am I going to have to charter a plane to Remond to punch Bill Gates in the face?

[jumanji]

ok this is your cause u have disabled it u can fix this by going to the start menu and typing in ''msconfig'' with out the '' and then click on services tab and on the bottom it will say hid microsoft services uncheck it and click apply ok then it might ask u to restart go ahead and do that and tada! ur done!
jumanji

[jumanji]

and i fogot to say welcome to the forums my freind!

[ntollfree]

Thanks for your kind welcome.
Have done that. Checkbox unchecked. There's a bunuch of windows services not started. Do I need to start any of them?

[jumanji]

It depends can u see the icons now ? And does crtl alt del work now?

[ntollfree]

Sorry mate. Missed a bit of pertinent info out. I find it without icons, etc in the morning but a hard reboot causes Vista to load normally each time.

[jumanji]

Ya it does but glad to help pm me for more help mate

[ntollfree]

Not letting me PM. Do you know what's causing the icons, etc to disappear?

[jumanji]

on site click my name and click pm and ur desktop its ur visual card u need to get a new one there cheap

[jumanji]

and 1 reason is cuz of cookies
dellete it