Frozen desktop

[gln121]

Today when trying to start up my computer, it booted up okay, clicked on user and arrived at desktop and from there any icon or program I clicked on would not respond, I just had the egg timer going forever. I rebooted the computer many times and just reached the stage of calling an expert when it decided to respond. Any advice on what may be happening please.

[knobbynonuts]

A very untechnical idea here but non the less it has worked for me a few times in fact even this morning, unplug computer from mains and leave for a minute or two then plug back in and boot up again..........

[heathfield]

Don't question the little tricks that the universe gets up to when it's bored!

[Paulst30]

Hard to diagnose without knowing your system specs, however, if it worked fine before then it might not be related to that.

Could be a corrupt driver, when you get to the boot screen (black with XP logo and blue scrolling bar) does it hang up longer than usual? because thats when the drivers are being accessed.

usually these sorts of things happen when a recent change has taken place so think back to when you last ran an updater or installed software and system restore before that date to see if that solves the problem.

Or ctrl+alt+del then go to proccess and end explorer.exe then your screen icons taskbar will dissapear. then start new task and type C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe and it will restart explorer, its a facier way to restart everything. Might kick it into life.