Control Panel, desktop and Windows Explorer are all absent in safe mode and windows XP Professional full

After having had a nasty during the Christmas holiday, my work windows XP computer virus never seemed the same.  I ran Malwarebytes, Registry Mechanic, and PC Tools antivirus to clean the computer.  However, now my computer will not display control panel, Windows Explorer or the desktop icons.  The Task Manager does not work.

Can someone help me?

On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 02:10:59 + 0000, D0xa wrote:

After having had a nasty during the Christmas holiday, my work windows XP computer virus never seemed the same.  I ran Malwarebytes, Registry Mechanic, and PC Tools antivirus to clean the computer.  However, now my computer will not display control panel, Windows Explorer or the desktop icons.  The Task Manager does not work.

Exactly what virus was this?

Almost certainly you don't has completely failed to clean the
computer upward. Keep in mind the following three things:

1. MalwareBytes anti-malware is an anti-spyware program and
nothing to clean up viruses.

2 PC Tools antivirus is a bad choice of an anti-virus program. For
an antivirus program, I recommend eSet NOD32, if you're ready
to pay for it. If you want a free anti-virus, I recommend one (are not
run several) of the following three:
 
Avira AntiVir
Avast
Microsoft Security Essentials

3. in the course of the run Registry Mechanic has been a very bad thing to do and it can be
responsible for the problems that you are experiencing now. Cleaning the registry
the programs are all snake oil. The registry cleaning is not necessary
and is dangerous. Let alone register and do not use any registry
cleaner. Despite what many people think and what providers of registry
cleaning software try to convince you to have unused registry
entries is not really make you hurt.
The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner by mistake
delete an entry you need is much greater than any potential benefit
It can have.
Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html

and http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099

and also
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/Archive/2005/10/02/registry-junk-a-Windows-fact-of-life.aspx

Let me stress that neither me nor anyone else who warns the
use of registry cleaners never said that they always cause
problems. If they have always caused problems, they would disappear from
the market almost immediately. Many people have used a registry
cleaner and never had a problem with it.

The problem with a registry cleaner is that it carries with it
the risk of a significant problem. And since there is no
benefits of using a registry cleaner, running that risk is a very bad
good deal.

Ken Blake (MS-MVP)

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