I don't have the desktop, no start menu item icons and taskbar shows hourglass after you start. Can't do anything except in safe mode. Help!

I have a dell Inspiron with windows xp. When I started the computer this morning, I pass the windows startup screen and then just get an empty office and no start menu icons. The taskbar are also disabled in me showing only an hourglass.

I restarted the computer in safe mode and run malwarebytes which found 1 infected file which I deleted it. Unfortunately this has not solved the problem.
For any help or suggestion would be welcome. I cannot function in atm safe mode but obviously limited in what I can do.

Thank you for your reply Syed. Since I posted the request, I took my machine an outlet Center supported local PC and he was diagnosed with a faulty hard drive. So, I now have a new hard drive prescription (and a couple of days of work re - install everything to hope).

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