Have you tried going to Dell Support? Since the OS was preinstalled, they
might have some answers. You might not be the
only one that this problem has come up.
"CountryBoy" <CountryBoy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ADA6AD53-F6E3-4E5D-A91B-B08653DC441C@microsoft.com...
>I just received my new Dell computer on 12/19/2005. Windows XP Media
>Center
> Edition was pre-installed. I have two users setup, myself and my wife.
> My problem is: No matter which user logs on first, the icons and taskbar
> appear for a few seconds and then disappears. I can switch users and the
> other user has everything on the desktop.
> I have gone to Task Manager, for the user without icons, and tried to run
> Windows explorer from the new task option. Still no icons or task bar.
> Looking in the task manager "resources", it does not show explorer.exe. I
> have done a Restore two times and continue to have this same problem.
> Someone PLEASE help !!! This is really frustrating to have a new computer
> that doesn't work properly.