Vostro 1500 - dekstop icons disappeared - stops at Vostro

I bought a Vostro 1500. It has been fine and I got XP instead of Vista. 2GB of RAM.

It boots up fine with quick Dell screen, black XP start up screen with thermometer line at bottom, then light blue XP screen then Vostro.

Before the destop icons show up next after Vostro and I am all set. Now it stops at Vostro.

I can get to programs using task manager file open and browse. Not very convenient.

This happened before and I turned it off, took the battery out and was back to normal. How do I get my desktop and icons back. Many thanks to all.

 

Explorer.exe is corrupt? try running explorer.exe through task manager

 

I think you are right. When I go to shut down it has a error to shut down Explorer first.

Okay I am able to open Explorer and get on the web through Task Manager but my desktop icons are still missing?

How do I uncorrupt Explorer? Download an updates from MSFT? Will my icons come back? Thank you for your help.

 

I found an article about running:

sfc/scannow at the OS prompt. This is system File Checker. It starts Windows File Protection Service to scan the system fro protected files and verify them to insure they are not corrupted. The tool will replace these files immediately upon finding them. May ask for source disk this would be OS disk. ???

I hope this works? Thanks for any suggestions.

 

that should be fine!