Desktopless In Windows
And oh, I lost my desktop on Windows 2000 a few days ago.
I booted to the Windows 2000 Pro side of my dual boot machine that I set up 44 days ago to find some old files. Then the Windows Update tray icon showed up telling me some important security fix has been downloaded. I installed them and rebooted back, just to find that MsTask can't find SHLWAPI.DLL and the Login program cannot load msgina.dll.
I copied those two files from another Windows 2000 machine just to get past the no login problem. And now explorer.exe won't start. Neither would IE. I have to resort to the task manager to start a Cygwin bash shell to get any work done.
You can all laugh at me while I delete the NTFS partition and be done with Windows! (At least on this machine.)