XP laptop start-up

Dick_Turpin99

Sometimes when I fire up my lap-top running XP it goes through the normal procedures....select the user.....then opens the desktop screen, but no title bar, no desk-top icons.....and just stays there.....switch it "off" on the button, go through it all again and usually it boots up, but just sometimes it doesn't meaning again I have to re-start.

I've run Malware & Dr Web anti-virus and haven't found anything (recently)

Any suggestions whats not happening?

GunJack

can you get to Start > run, type explorer.exe and enter when it happens ??

rdpro

get to a 'working' desktop where you can use the laptop.

Go to Start > Run.. and type 'msconfig'

Click the 'Startup' tab and look down the list of ticked boxes - untick any programs you really don't need to start with windows - i.e., most of them.

Reboot, and see if this makes any difference.