Vista update and we now have a black wallpaper - Satellite P300

Windows Vista update last night on our P300 laptop and is now rather weird.

We get only a black background solid and a lot of the icons that we had are gone, and it will not change the wallpaper. Most of the programs are not loading at startup as usual (only anti virus) and most of the things are missing from the start menu... it happened to anyone before? It sounds almost to what they do when you have a pirate copy of Vista (and of course this one IS legitimate as it came with the lappy)...

Any suggestings?

I did not physically see the laptop and won't til tomorrow myself... Although my companion knowing its probably just something simple but thought check here around before that snack.

Thanks :)

Solved the problem...

A windows update some how corrupted the registry.

I hit log off in windows and then tried clicking on the user name to connect (we just auto journal in value) and when trying to load the profile, we had a service user profile Service has no logon.

A system restore fixed the issue... :)

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