Hot Downloads

×

Notice

The forum is in read only mode.
Welcome, Guest
Username: Password: Remember me
  • Page:
  • 1

TOPIC:

Flashing or missing desktop icons 10 years 5 months ago #38161

  • bigdp
  • bigdp's Avatar Topic Author
  • Offline
  • New Member
  • New Member
  • Posts: 17
  • Thank you received: 0
Please can anyone help me with this annoying problem..

Whenever i turn on my laptop it starts up and the icons show and then start flashing on and off or just vanish.

I started up in safe mode and tried to download anti virus software but i cannot download any antivirus stuff. This didnt work so i downloaded from another PC and transferred onto my laptop. After that whenever i tried to run the software nothing happens..

Any help on this would be appreciated...

Thanks

Re: Flashing or missing desktop icons 10 years 4 months ago #38173

  • S0lo
  • S0lo's Avatar
  • Offline
  • Moderator
  • Moderator
  • Posts: 1577
  • Karma: 3
  • Thank you received: 7
Not sure, could be a virus. Or it could be that explorer.exe is stopped. explorer.exe is the process that shows your desktop icon and task bar. Is the task bar also disappearing?

Try this, run task manager (ctrl+Alt+del) then click [File] menu then [new task] then type explorer.exe then [Ok]. This will try to run explorer.exe again.
Studying CCNP...

Ammar Muqaddas
Forum Moderator
www.firewall.cx

Re: Flashing or missing desktop icons 10 years 4 months ago #38181

hey bigdp,

1. Dont know if you considered this, but just to have it said...
you need to boot up in safe mode with network drivers to download anything

2. Based on this, it could even be some graphic driver bug or whatever...
but since youve taken the virus path already, lets try this first...
download a bootable anti virus cd image like

www.avira.com/en/download/product/avira-antivir-rescue-system
or
support.kaspersky.com/en/viruses/rescuedisk
burn the image to cd, boot from it, run a scan and check the result

3. Otherwise, if all the above didnt helped i suggest you to reinstall/renew your graphic
drivers

4. If all the above didnt helped, give some further information in your next post plz

-chrnxR
the dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today and the reality of tomorrow.

-Robert H. Goddard
  • Page:
  • 1
Time to create page: 0.098 seconds

CCENT/CCNA

Cisco Routers

  • SSL WebVPN
  • Securing Routers
  • Policy Based Routing
  • Router on-a-Stick

VPN Security

  • Understand DMVPN
  • GRE/IPSec Configuration
  • Site-to-Site IPSec VPN
  • IPSec Modes

Cisco Help

  • VPN Client Windows 8
  • VPN Client Windows 7
  • CCP Display Problem
  • Cisco Support App.

Windows 2012

  • New Features
  • Licensing
  • Hyper-V / VDI
  • Install Hyper-V

Linux

  • File Permissions
  • Webmin
  • Groups - Users
  • Samba Setup