Odd problem with Win XP SP1

[vacanthead]

When I updated to Sp1 for Win XP, after rebooting all I got was my desktop background. No icons, no start menu, no taskbar etc. This really freaked me out for ages so eventually I did the old ctrl-alt-del and was able to log off my user and log on again which fixed it. Has anybody else come across this? Although not a huge problem, surely that shouldn't happen? I know enough about PCs, which meant I could fix it, but it would really screw up some people who are expecting it to work as is. This happened with 2 different HDD / mobo combinations and on several re-installs of XP.

[RJ]

Does that mean that it happens every time after installing the Service Pack or even at every bootup with the SP installed ?
I haven't had the problem when I installed SP1.

I suggest that you slipstream SP1 into WinXP and do a clean install.

RJ

[vacanthead]

Just with the installation. works just dandy after that.

[RJ]

Hmm. Haven't had that problem but you should slipstream then you don't need to load SP1 afterwards anymore, and the problem should be no more.

RJ

[Trent Steel]

Sorry to ask, but whats slipstream?

[andyms18a]

slipstream is incorparating the service pk with xp on to a new cd you burn http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/winxp-sp1-bootcd.html

[andyms18a]

all so redownload service pk1a as your one may be damaged the problam you have is explorer is not loading on startup affter update

[thomas__hb]

Try pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del to get the Task Manager and under the Applications tab, click "New Task" and type EXPLORER. This should get your Start Menu etc. up