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[Lordcrazy]

Yes so when I got on today I noticed all my shortcuts were gone and i couldnt click and drag on my screen and also all of my gadgets were missing on the sidebar. I had even restarted my computer and still nothing. I am running Windows Vista Home Premium 32 Bit please help?

[ReGIONALS]

go to task manager and end the process explorer.exe, then immediately re run it in newtask see fi that does anythign

[Lordcrazy]

sorry it didnt help...

[Tweezy]

Do you have a system restore point? If so try booting up a restore point, if that doesn't help the only thing i can recommend is defragging ur harddrive, then restarting.

Hope this helps'
~Tweezy

[Jager]

defragging isnt going to help anything, but the system restore might. try this for me, open taskmanager and watch these two areas at the bottm. first is cpu usage, is it pegged at 100% when you are seeing issues? also next to that is the commit charge, should look like xxx/xxxx is the first number near the number after the slash? if either is yes, you have something that is taking up all of the system resources it can, and i recommend you hold f8 when the computer is restarting to get into safemode and run anti virus/antispyware scans.

if neither the cpu usage or the commit charge are near 100% then still scan for viruses/spyware, and if problem persists then system restore.

[TheVirus]

What happens when you boot into Safe Mode? Can you scan for malware? Did anything change from the last time it worked (new programs, hardware, etc)?

[TNT]

I am running Windows Vista Home Premium 32 Bit

Found the problem.

[Lordcrazy]

defragging isnt going to help anything, but the system restore might. try this for me, open taskmanager and watch these two areas at the bottm. first is cpu usage, is it pegged at 100% when you are seeing issues? also next to that is the commit charge, should look like xxx/xxxx is the first number near the number after the slash? if either is yes, you have something that is taking up all of the system resources it can, and i recommend you hold f8 when the computer is restarting to get into safemode and run anti virus/antispyware scans.

if neither the cpu usage or the commit charge are near 100% then still scan for viruses/spyware, and if problem persists then system restore.

Thanks but where is this Commit Charge? My CPU Usage was in between 1-30% all the time. (it only went past ten when i was scrolling the page...)

P.S. If you guys want to know when this happened it was sometime between 9:30 PM Jan. 12 (when I got off) and 5:00 PM Jan. 13 (when I got home.)

[Lordcrazy]

I would like to update this thread.
Today January the 22nd my sidebar on the desktop came back but still having the issues with the shortcuts/icons please help?

P.S. I didnt use the edit button so it would get bumped up.