I turned on my PC on Saturday morning and whilst Windows (XP PRO) was loading I got a message. Something about a registry file or part of the registry file having to be restored. It only had an OK button so I pressed it.

Now when it has finished loading Windows all I get is a background screen. No icons, and no taskbar. I can do a CTRL/ALT/DEL and get up the task Manager window etc., but thats it.

I presume my registry is probably screwed now, due to whatever it did when it thought it was fixing itself.

Has anyone got any ideas how I might be able to rectify this ?

I tried SAFE mode too, and got the same results.

I also tried the "Load from Last Time It Successfully Worked" option, and geuss what ..... that gave me sod all as well


I just wondered if there was anything I could do APART from a re-install, which would be a right pain.

Thanks in advance ........

Steve.