desk top came up with no icons

[tadsdad]

basically that's it. only thing i have been able to do is get the task manager pulled up with a soft boot (control alt delete). i can run new task and see files on my computer and i thought that if i could open and run my virus spyware it might find something corrupt and fix it. (it has worked great on things in the past), but it wont run. OK it is a dell laptop inspirion 1520 running windows xp home. i have no experience with dos programs except knowing that is probably necessary to fix these kinds of problems. yeah other things I'm trying to think of, i am supposed to be the only user and I'm almost always using a cable modem. And after checking i have all of the driver Cd's and reinstall CD for ms windows xp home edition service pack 2. I'm sure I'm forgetting something, just let me know . Thanks

[UNSCSpartan3]

run "explorer.exe" and see what happens

[tadsdad]

my friend you are a miracle worker. Never in a million years did i think i would have my computer back so quick and easy.

[tadsdad]

i got worried for a minute, after checking a few things i wanted to make sure it was going to reboot OK and it didn't i had to open explorer.exe. and then as well it seemed that only my internet applications would open and run so after a little thought i ran my system restore to an earlier point right before the last thing i had done and now it seems that all is back to normal, just thought that this might help someone else in the future, so once again many thanks.

[BC_Programmer]

just thought that this might help someone else in the future, so once again many thanks.

It just might, you never know! Thanks for posting back