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Upon installing SP3, desktop icons don't load, taskbar disappears and nothing runs at startup
I have recently been forced to reinstall Windows XP. Since then, every time I install Service Pack 3, my task bar does not load when I log in. The only way I have been able to get it back is to repair the install using the Windows XP install disk. This does not help much, however, as I am then left without installed updates. I have tried stopping and restarting explorer.exe and I have copied the explorer.exe from my old install (my computer recognizes the drive but refuses to boot from it now). Neither of those have worked. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could either tell me how to fix it directly or avoid the problem the next time I have to install XP SP3. I am currently on that machine. I'm using the Task Manager to open up the command line.
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