Posted October 27, 200717 yr My PC has an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ CPU, and had been working fine with Windows XP home edition. I decided to upgrade to XP Pro, and since it is a 64 bit CPU decided to get the 64 bit version of XP. I installed a new full copy of XP Pro x64. Formatted the partition first. XP Pro x64 installed and was OK until I donwloaded and installed IE7 64 bit version. After installation and reboot I had a background but no icons and no taskbar or start button. I tried many suiggestions from the web but none helped. Since then i have tried additional clean installations, reformatting again in between, but now every installation leaves me with the same situation no icons, no taskbar or start button. I can open task manger, but cannot get any programs to run from there. Safe mode does work. Any ideas what may have happened, and how to fix this?
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