start up programs trouble

[romanstopme]

i was messing around on my pc and TURNED OFF SOME START UP PROGRAMS. i turned off the computer and the turned it on again. when the computer turned on again all that showed up was the background image and the my documents folder. nothing else shows up. not the clock or nothing. i cant even get the start menu. there is nothing on my scree except the document folder witch i can get to internet documents and all the drives how can i fix it so everything gets back to normal. i dont have the original xp cd or another recovery cd also i dont want to lose any documents. any help?

[Timmychuck]

Have you tryed your system restore?

[freebird73717]

Have you tried booting into safe mode by pressing f8 during system bootup? You may be able to fix your problem in safe mode.

A good program for dealing with startup programs is called autoruns.

Simply run Autoruns and it shows you the currently configured auto-start applications as well as the full list of Registry and file system locations available for auto-start configuration. Autostart locations displayed by Autoruns include logon entries, Explorer add-ons, Internet Explorer add-ons including Browser Helper Objects (BHOs), Appinit DLLs, image hijacks, boot execute images, Winlogon notification DLLs, Windows Services and Winsock Layered Service Providers. Switch tabs to view autostarts from different categories.

[romanstopme]

i have tried the F8 safe mode nothing happens its the same

[CogoSWSDS]

After your computer boots and you get to your blank desktop, press Ctrl-Alt-Delete. In XP Home this will bring up your task manager, in XP pro it will bring up a dialog box from which you can select task manager. Either way, you need your task manager open. Once it is open, click the "Applications" tab, then the "New Task" button. Once that is open, enter "explore" and click OK. Your desktop should now load and you'll be able to try the system restore to get your box back up and running.

CogoSWSDS

[romanstopme]

does any one know how to fix the start up programs through command prompt

[Squash]

Press the Windows key and the "R" key together and type in "msconfig", hit "enter" key, then click the "Startup" tab.

I'm on Vista now, but as I remember it works the same on XP.

[Ai Haibara]

I really wouldn't try to restore the startup entries through the command prompt. Really. Try using System Restore, setting it to a date before you deleted the startup entries, and see if that saves you some headaches.

If you want to re-enter the entries, you'll have to remember exactly what they were, where the programs were located, and any command flags they might have used.

[Midzuki]

"Under normal conditions", disabling the meddlesome start-up applications
should not make the stupid winlogon.exe forget to call explorer.exe.
I suppose something else may have happened for causing that problem.
To me, it seems your user profile has been partially corrupted.
Perhaps creating a new user account and then deleting the current one
might solve the issue.

HTH.