Vista - Vista Ultimate startup issue

Hi,

I upgraded from Windows XP to Vista Ultimate and I now have a problem. When
I click on my username to log on, windows explorer pops up in "My Documents".
The explorer shell doesn't load, and I have to start the task manager, and
manually start explorer. Can anyone tell me what steps I need to take to
rectify this?

Thank you,
Maria

On Mar 24, 9:12 am, Maria <M...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I upgraded from Windows XP to Vista Ultimate and I now have a problem. When
> I click on my username to log on, windows explorer pops up in "My Documents".
> The explorer shell doesn't load, and I have to start the task manager, and
> manually start explorer. Can anyone tell me what steps I need to take to
> rectify this?
>
> Thank you,
> Maria

Hello,

It sounds like you have some startup programs / settings from your XP
install that did not get carried over correctly during the upgrade.
Or perhaps the install failed badly and your desktop is very damaged.

When I log into my Vista PC I get the desktop and the welcome center.
I have open Windows Explorer manually ( usually I just hit the windows
key and the E key to bring it up)

What do you mean by explorer shell? What do you do to manually start
explorer in the task manager?

Sorry to reply with just more questions, good luck

Explorer shell, as in the Desktop UI. What I do i ctrl+alt+del , launch Task
Manager, and run explorer.exe. That's when I get the desktop and task bar etc
etc, otherwise there's nothing there.

The installation went fine as far as I can tell, no problem reported and I
made sure I cleared any installation conflicts beforehand

"jacobsbd@gmail.com" wrote:

> On Mar 24, 9:12 am, Maria <M...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I upgraded from Windows XP to Vista Ultimate and I now have a problem. When
> > I click on my username to log on, windows explorer pops up in "My Documents".
> > The explorer shell doesn't load, and I have to start the task manager, and
> > manually start explorer. Can anyone tell me what steps I need to take to
> > rectify this?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Maria
>
> Hello,
>
> It sounds like you have some startup programs / settings from your XP
> install that did not get carried over correctly during the upgrade.
> Or perhaps the install failed badly and your desktop is very damaged.
>
> When I log into my Vista PC I get the desktop and the welcome center.
> I have open Windows Explorer manually ( usually I just hit the windows
> key and the E key to bring it up)
>
> What do you mean by explorer shell? What do you do to manually start
> explorer in the task manager?
>
> Sorry to reply with just more questions, good luck
>
>

Same thing happens to me, with windows vista bussiness pre-installed on my
laptop. When I start windows, only the "Documents" window appears, and I have
to launch explorer.exe to go on.

"Maria" wrote:

> Explorer shell, as in the Desktop UI. What I do i ctrl+alt+del , launch Task
> Manager, and run explorer.exe. That's when I get the desktop and task bar etc
> etc, otherwise there's nothing there.
>
> The installation went fine as far as I can tell, no problem reported and I
> made sure I cleared any installation conflicts beforehand
>
> "jacobsbd@gmail.com" wrote:
>
> > On Mar 24, 9:12 am, Maria <M...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I upgraded from Windows XP to Vista Ultimate and I now have a problem. When
> > > I click on my username to log on, windows explorer pops up in "My Documents".
> > > The explorer shell doesn't load, and I have to start the task manager, and
> > > manually start explorer. Can anyone tell me what steps I need to take to
> > > rectify this?
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Maria
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > It sounds like you have some startup programs / settings from your XP
> > install that did not get carried over correctly during the upgrade.
> > Or perhaps the install failed badly and your desktop is very damaged.
> >
> > When I log into my Vista PC I get the desktop and the welcome center.
> > I have open Windows Explorer manually ( usually I just hit the windows
> > key and the E key to bring it up)
> >
> > What do you mean by explorer shell? What do you do to manually start
> > explorer in the task manager?
> >
> > Sorry to reply with just more questions, good luck
> >
> >

Try running SFC. sfc /scannow
click on command prompt run as administrator.
See if that helps find the problem.



"Jose" <Jose@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BB483124-663B-41A8-BA2F-A5C14BE07FD2@microsoft.com...
> Same thing happens to me, with windows vista bussiness pre-installed on my
> laptop. When I start windows, only the "Documents" window appears, and I
> have
> to launch explorer.exe to go on.
>
> "Maria" wrote:
>
>> Explorer shell, as in the Desktop UI. What I do i ctrl+alt+del , launch
>> Task
>> Manager, and run explorer.exe. That's when I get the desktop and task bar
>> etc
>> etc, otherwise there's nothing there.
>>
>> The installation went fine as far as I can tell, no problem reported and
>> I
>> made sure I cleared any installation conflicts beforehand
>>
>> "jacobsbd@gmail.com" wrote:
>>
>> > On Mar 24, 9:12 am, Maria <M...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > I upgraded from Windows XP to Vista Ultimate and I now have a
>> > > problem. When
>> > > I click on my username to log on, windows explorer pops up in "My
>> > > Documents".
>> > > The explorer shell doesn't load, and I have to start the task
>> > > manager, and
>> > > manually start explorer. Can anyone tell me what steps I need to take
>> > > to
>> > > rectify this?
>> > >
>> > > Thank you,
>> > > Maria
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > It sounds like you have some startup programs / settings from your XP
>> > install that did not get carried over correctly during the upgrade.
>> > Or perhaps the install failed badly and your desktop is very damaged.
>> >
>> > When I log into my Vista PC I get the desktop and the welcome center.
>> > I have open Windows Explorer manually ( usually I just hit the windows
>> > key and the E key to bring it up)
>> >
>> > What do you mean by explorer shell? What do you do to manually start
>> > explorer in the task manager?
>> >
>> > Sorry to reply with just more questions, good luck
>> >
>> >

No, I did that and it said there were some errors repaired, but it didn't
solve the issue of the "Documents" but no shell appearing at startup.

I still don't know how to solve this, please help!


"Kue2" wrote:

> Try running SFC. sfc /scannow
> click on command prompt run as administrator.
> See if that helps find the problem.