I boot up the machine, and before the desktop appears, I get a window in the middle of the screen. Behind the window is the desktop picture, but no icons or system tray. In the window is a red dot, in the red dot are these letters, CTE and right below those XPL. You can either click on the close box, or on the dot, both do the same thing. Once you click, the window fades away, similar to a mirage effect, and I am left with just the desktop picture. Upon reboot, the window does not come back, but I also do not get any desktop icons or system tray. I can get the task manager, but explorer/systray/IE etc. won't run. Safe mode is the same, no icons, no systray. I reformatted the hard drive, re-installed, and next day same thing happened! Please, if anyone has any ideas or help, it would be much appreciated. BTW, before it crashed, I ran Norton Antivirus with latest updates and found no viruses.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Mark.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Mark.