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No icons are shown, only background when I start windows

I can only see background image and nothing else. If open task manager through key combination, I see that explorer process takes a lot of resources and when I try to log off, I can't--I have to END explorer process first. So, it looks like explorer is stuck with something and prevents normal Windows operations. What could it be?? What can I do?
May 17 '07 #1
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Motoma
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Does this happen when you boot into safe mode?
May 17 '07 #2
I don't know how to boot in safe mode on this laptop. Actually, windows doesn't get hung completely--it just takes very long time before icons and everything else appears on the background. May be it's KodakEasyShare that I'd installed...
May 17 '07 #3
bartonc
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I don't know how to boot in safe mode on this laptop. Actually, windows doesn't get hung completely--it just takes very long time before icons and everything else appears on the background. May be it's KodakEasyShare that I'd installed...
KodakEasyShare is a big memory hog. If the laptop has less than 512MBs of memory, you probably here a lot of disk action taking place while windows is trying to start explorer. Then, if you try to do anything else, you'll get more delays while explorer is "swapped" out of memory, onto the disk.
May 18 '07 #4

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