Help, I lost everything! No desktop or start menu etc

[innovaddict]

Hi,

I recently was given a laptop with Windows XP Professional loaded onto it. However, there were 3244 viruses etc found on it when I used AVG 8.0 to detect them. I thought that sorted the problem as previously the internet didn't work. Now, I load XP as normal and it goes through the normal motions and I click my profile on the start up screen. It says 'loading personal settings' and then all I get is my wallpaper.

The Start menu is gone, and the Task bar and all of the icons which were previously on the desktop. I have nothing. So I have tried to sort it through Windows Task Manager and I can see all of these files but can't use anything. Also, in 'processes' there is no i.explorer or anything!

All that is there is 12 image names with 'system' and 2 with 'network service' and 1 with 'local service'.

Is this to do with registry keys or something?

Please help because I need that laptop for everything!?!

[innovaddict]

How do I do that?

I've pretty much lost everything but at the same time I can still find it through Task Manager I just can't load anything.

Currently this is all I have in Task Manager:

wuauclt.exe
taskmgr.exe
avgemc.exe
avgwdsvc.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
lsass.exe
services.exe
winlogon.exe
csrss.exe
smss.exe
avgrsx.exe
System
System Idle Process