Explorer Not Running On Startup?

My home computer has been having a problem lately - After logging in, nothing will happen. All that comes up is my desktop background, but no icons or anything, not even the taskbar. I can manually start new tasks pretty easily, but that's kind of annoying, and even if I start explorer.exe, it will be up for a second or two but then disappear. I have been running 3 different antivirus software and the problem persists. Does anyone know how this can be corrected?

Explorer Not Running On Startup?hp

Right off the bat, it is best to have only ONE anti-virus program installed on your computer. Multiple anti-spyware software programs are ok and even recommended, but anti-vitrus software rarely if ever gets along together. Pick your favorite and uninstall the others. Let me know if this helps and good luck.

Explorer Not Running On Startup?mcaffee

Hello Reikan.

I would recommend you start up in safe mode, pressing F8 at the startup screen. Get some answers on what to do while in safe mode. You could also try to go to "Run" if possible, and type in: MSCONFIG. Check all that apply in the GENERAL Tab as well as the STARTUP Tab. See if it is in Normal Startup with every sub-box checked in gray. I recommend not to change anything on the other tabs unless you are absolutely sure you know what you are doing.

Not much but hope that helps.

Take care and God bless.

Enjoy every moment in life. Don't sweat the small stuff.
hmmm......... think ull need to reinstall the OS or get it checked from the place wer u got the pc
Is it possible that the userinit in your registry has been altered? Or userinit.exe in your computer is defected? In my place (Indonesia) there's a virus that change this setting. Try to check that in the registry, just use the "find" feature and look for userinit. (It's not possible to describe the registry keys here since yahoo answer will censor it).

Good luck