After the OS boots up and I log in to my admin account, only the taskbar and empty desktop appear (attached picture). After I refresh the desktop, all of the icons appear, but everything remains unresponsive. For example, I can't minimize any windows (I can still open firefox, or file explorer though), non of the windows appear on taskbar, there are no startup processes running, the time on the taskbar is not visible, "back to desktop" in the taskbar doesn't work etc. Mouse and keyboard works, but some functions doesn't (scroll wheel)
I tried signing in to my secondary windows account and after 15 mins the startup processes suddenly loaded and it worked when I switched to my main account as well. But then, next time I turn on the PC the same thing happens again and I can't get it working on either profile anymore. I am not sure what I did, but I suspect it was just random, because I haven't done anything significant (starting bunch of programs, ending tasks, trying to restart explorer 50 times...)
What I tried:
- end and restart explorer.exe
- login to my secondary admin account, issue remains with slight variation
- try to end different processes via task manager
- windows 8 updates up to date
From what I read, this could be corrupted explorer.exe or just corrupted windows profile in general?
Anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
Thank you.
I tried signing in to my secondary windows account and after 15 mins the startup processes suddenly loaded and it worked when I switched to my main account as well. But then, next time I turn on the PC the same thing happens again and I can't get it working on either profile anymore. I am not sure what I did, but I suspect it was just random, because I haven't done anything significant (starting bunch of programs, ending tasks, trying to restart explorer 50 times...)
What I tried:
- end and restart explorer.exe
- login to my secondary admin account, issue remains with slight variation
- try to end different processes via task manager
- windows 8 updates up to date
From what I read, this could be corrupted explorer.exe or just corrupted windows profile in general?
Anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
Thank you.
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