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    Windows desktop screen disappears!!!!

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by knight23, Jan 10, 2008.

  1. knight23

    knight23 Newbie

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    I have a VAIO FZ24E, i closed it once (from the button that put the laptop in low power mode) and i opened it again and after loading windows I end up having only the cursor on the screen (no desktop, no taskbar) and the folder "documents" is opened. and nothing is working!!! I need help. ThanQ

    i'm working on windows vista btw
     
    knight23, Jan 10, 2008
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  2. John B

    John B Notebook Prophet

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    Have you restarted it?
     
    John B, Jan 10, 2008
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    unid3ntifi3d Notebook Consultant

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    I don't have a solution for it but to ease the situation, you can try to run "explorer" in task manager to see if everything comes back. I can only confirm it works for XP, but it's worth trying in your situation.
     
    unid3ntifi3d, Jan 10, 2008
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    knight23 Newbie

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    yes, i restarted many times...

    and i opened the task manager and found "explorer.exe" running...

    this is really strange!!!!
     
    knight23, Jan 10, 2008
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    knight23 Newbie

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    yes, thanks a million, i did run the explorer and it worked, the first time the explorer was working, i did restart and run the explorer and it retuned back.
     
    knight23, Jan 11, 2008
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    binaryr Notebook Enthusiast

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    apparently an updated nvidia driver fixes this issue? cant garauntee it though otherwise sounds liike a startup program, disable your startup items in msconfig and try again
     
    binaryr, Jan 12, 2008
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    |SONY| Notebook Evangelist

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    ditch vista. it helps a lot
     
    |SONY|, Jan 12, 2008
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