Shawn Posted December 18, 2008 Ive had two or three machines come in now with a symptom of boot to black screen and mouse. The mouse functions, but nothing else. I cant get the Task Manager to come up..nothing. Almost like Explorer.exe was removed. Also, oddly, when I look at the Restore Dirs...all the registry stuff was removed from the restore points, so if you try a system restore with Winternals or such, you get the dreaded SYSTEM32/SYSTEM error. I searched, and didnt see anything related to this..any ideas? At this point, backup, wipeout and reload is my only solution. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SUPERAntiSpy Posted December 22, 2008 Ive had two or three machines come in now with a symptom of boot to black screen and mouse. The mousefunctions, but nothing else. I cant get the Task Manager to come up..nothing. Almost like Explorer.exe was removed. Also, oddly, when I look at the Restore Dirs...all the registry stuff was removed from the restore points, so if you try a system restore with Winternals or such, you get the dreaded SYSTEM32/SYSTEM error. I searched, and didnt see anything related to this..any ideas? At this point, backup, wipeout and reload is my only solution. Have done a repair from the XP DVD/CD? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
