My laptop’s been coming up but not showing the apps and icons, same with the start button. What is causing this? How do I fix it?
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My laptop’s been coming up but not showing the apps and icons, same with the start button. What is causing this? How do I fix it?
Do a Ctrl+Alt+Delete and look in the process tab. Then, click on image name to organize it in alphabetical order. you will see explorer.exe somewhere in there. Click it and click End Process at the bottom right. If you do not see explorer.exe then skip this step. Now click the Applications tab and you will see 3 buttons at the bottom called End Task, Switch To, and New Task. Click New Task. A small window will open up that says Create New Task. In the white bar type in explorer.exe and you will have your desktop back.
This can be really frustrating, I’m so sorry you’re experiencing that. I have had my fair share of it myself and after hours of reading blogs and posts and getting different suggesttions from many people I decided to do what I know. I restarted my computer, upon start up I hit F8 to get into the safe mode options. I selected start in safe mode. I then went into control panel, and did a system restore to a date from last month. Once that happened, the system restarts itself and lo and behold everything was back to normal. I did many things from creating a new user account, etc etc. and nothing worked. Try the system restore and that should fix the problem.