Posted August 3, 200816 yr Vista, SP1 I have a problem...stared out occurring when I went to sleep mode for a while or locked the workstation. Now I am getting it on a cold boot too. System comes up, but my desktop icons, with the exception of three or four out of sixty five, are blank - text shows but icons are blank (My Computer and Control Panel shortcuts always look fine along with one desktop folder). The system shows busy (hourglass). The disk drive rattles away excessively for a while. The hour glass never goes away, the icons stay blank. I can start programs by clicking on the blank icons and use them normally. A check in Process Explorer shows little activity with the exception of csrss.exe (after a cold boot) which is doing a fair amount of IO and getting 5% CPU - although when this happens with a return from sleep mode there is no significant activity so I don't know that csrss is related. I can do anything I'd like EXCEPT logoff or shutdown. The only way to shutdown is via a hard power off. Once I crash it with a hard power off and reboot, it works properly. Any ideas?
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