carlk23
May 3rd, 2004, 12:44 AM
I know this must cause people to shake their heads, but here goes. Noticed Norton was scanning outgoing emails that I wasn't sending - about one every twenty seconds. Checked my outbox and sent emails and there were no records of them. Decided to download a spykiller and adaware. Rebooted and BAM! No desktop, no start button, no icons, nothing. Control-alt-del showed no programs running. Same problem in safe mode. Came to this board and tried the scanreg/restore solution (to a previous, successful date) with no success. Altered the windows/system.ini (shell=winfile.exe) which allowed me to get to msconfig and some other programs (including Opera which I'm using now), and I successfully screwed things up enough that the CDR doesn't work - it doesn't say it isn't recognized, it just won't acknowledge a disk (says there isn't a disk in there). I think the problem is one involving the shdocvw file given some of the research I've done. I reloaded the Windows 98 before I screwed the CDR, but this only wasted about 40 minutes of my time - no change in the problem. Any help/suggestion to get even the "Start" button back is greatly appreciated - mockery is not appreciated but likely deserved :dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy: !