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help with blank desktop
Gamezertruth:
--- Quote from: Shane on December 15, 2014, 02:27:51 pm ---Have you ran combofix on the system yet?
Shane
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yes :smiley:
Gamezertruth:
--- Quote from: Boggin on December 15, 2014, 04:51:03 am ---I've always used Windows own defragger as of the couple or so of others that I've tried, Windows is the only one that has achieved 0% Fragmentation.
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okay then i will try this today :smiley:
--- Quote from: Boggin on December 15, 2014, 04:51:03 am ---I've always used Windows own defragger as of the couple or so of others that I've tried, Windows is the only one that has achieved 0% Fragmentation.
Think I've found the solution to the icon problem in the Troubleshooting section of the FAQs for Nexus http://www.winstep.net/ultimatefaq.asp#i6
Apparently it's because of a bug in Stardock's IconPackager and to resolve it requires deleting a registry key, although the article doesn't give an alternative if this key doesn't exist - perhaps you may have to work your way through the rest of the registry to remove anything Winstep/Nexus related.
Go Start - type regedit - press enter and accept the UAC and from the FAQs navigate -
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile and look to see if sub key IconHandler exists - right click on it and select Delete.
Close the registry sections - File/Exit and reboot but create a restore point first before making any changes.
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good catch Boggin :wink: but I’m unable to located this registry key or there is no such registry key
--- Quote from: Boggin on December 15, 2014, 04:51:03 am ---I'm not sure if the other bits that AdwCleaner found were part of Winstep but I had a program called Free Fixer which was a similar program to AdwCleaner, where you could select which to uninstall and it snagged that as a PuP and removed it, so ADW snagging those could be false positives - but as you are so short of space, why are you installing additional programs ?
Don't forget to run Disk Cleanup as an admin.
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yeah such a program have a lot of false positives and i have to installing additional programs Because I want to change the style of desktop icons and wallpapers and start menu and taskbar ! and today i was trying to do a disk cleanup but i have Serious problem where clicking on one of the disks and before disk cleaning is done it causing the unexpected shutdown of Windows ! even click on some link in the web is causing unexpected shutdown of Windows ! and i don’t know what to do ! :sad:
Shane:
Some of my repairs do target the hideicons and desktop and all that, I take it you already ran my windows repair with all the repairs selected?
Shane
Gamezertruth:
--- Quote from: Shane on December 15, 2014, 03:37:01 pm ---Some of my repairs do target the hideicons and desktop and all that, I take it you already ran my windows repair with all the repairs selected?
Shane
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aha :wink: and i have already ran your program with all repairs on that system ! :tongue:
Shane:
Ok so you said a blank desktop, so no taskbar either? Explorer.exe running? So just a black screen with the mouse? Are you able to open the task manager?
Shane
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