Hi All,
Has anybody come across this before?
This morning I had a notification that my defender in Windows 8 was out of date and needed updating which I went ahead with.
After the restart I was presented with my login screen.
After logging in I get to the tiles screen but there are no tiles.
If I press the windows key + d I get to my desktop but the wallpaper is gone and I just have a black background with my Firefox icons etc but I can't run anything.
I can't start the control panel from the pc setting option when I move my mouse to the right of the screen but I can eventually get to the control panel if I go back to the desktop and start explorer.exe from the task manager. In the task manager there is nothing running which looks strange, I thought normally there would be lots of things listed as running
If I check my updates I can see defender was successfully updated this morning but I pretty much have an unusable system.
This happened not too long ago also and I ended up doing a clean install as I could not find a way around this and did not have time to find out what the issue was.
Can anybody help with this or am I basically facing a clean installation again?
I checked if I could go back to an earlier restore point but it tells me there are no restore points.
I also disabled defender for now to see if that helped but it's still the same.
Thanks and regards
Has anybody come across this before?
This morning I had a notification that my defender in Windows 8 was out of date and needed updating which I went ahead with.
After the restart I was presented with my login screen.
After logging in I get to the tiles screen but there are no tiles.
If I press the windows key + d I get to my desktop but the wallpaper is gone and I just have a black background with my Firefox icons etc but I can't run anything.
I can't start the control panel from the pc setting option when I move my mouse to the right of the screen but I can eventually get to the control panel if I go back to the desktop and start explorer.exe from the task manager. In the task manager there is nothing running which looks strange, I thought normally there would be lots of things listed as running
If I check my updates I can see defender was successfully updated this morning but I pretty much have an unusable system.
This happened not too long ago also and I ended up doing a clean install as I could not find a way around this and did not have time to find out what the issue was.
Can anybody help with this or am I basically facing a clean installation again?
I checked if I could go back to an earlier restore point but it tells me there are no restore points.
I also disabled defender for now to see if that helped but it's still the same.
Thanks and regards
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- windows 8