If "System Restore" from "Safe Mode" recommended by the previous reply doesn't work you may just need to do a complete reinstallation of XP Home. I installed Pro and for some reason I was missing the task bar, icons etc. I could access everything via ctrl alt del - task mgr. but I couldn't get anything going to correct the problem so I reinstalled and all was OK then.
Be careful removing spyware, try quarantine first in case it is needed to run certain programs.
Hope this helps.
cdb252
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