Thread: Lost Background, Toolbar, and Start Button

When I turned on my Computer all was black and I had my documents show. My Toolbar was lost so my start button couldn’t work.

If the Start taskbar wasn't put to auto hide which would still be seen briefly when the desktop was last loading up your desktop is what isn't there. Classically this will be a result of some startup item stalling on you cause a problem for the explorer.exe file which is the main guy file .

As well safe mode XP also sees the Last known configuration that worked choice there as well. Occasionally that will take care of a slight problem like a device driver not loading up but stalling Windows. If that still doesn't work you would then need to choose the safe mode option and try disabling start up items in the msconfig utility until Windows boots usually again.