[Ham-Computers] "Disappearing" Desktop

[paulahkolik at aol.com]

Greetings to the list.



My desktop has "disappeared." When I boot-up, all I visually get is 
wallpaper (Win XP default wallpaper) and must resort to clicking on new 
task in task manager to run anything. (IE, Mozilla, Notepad, etc.)

Prior to all of this happening, my virus scanner mistakenly identified 
csrss.exe as a virus, so I kept clicking ignore when it prompted me on 
what to do. About that time, I noticed that winlogon.exe was using 
40-95 % of the cpu according to task manager. I tried to reboot 
normally, but had to resort to killing the power. I doubt it's a RAM 
issue as I'm running 1 gig with 128 megs dedicated to video.

I can't run system restore at present, as I'm in the process of 
removing arm32 & a mysterious file called "1.exe"

Any suggestions shy of running a factory restore? I'd rather not as I'd 
have to re-register a ton of software. I've tried all of the usual 
tricks like safe mode & chkdsk /f but nothing seems to be working.

My system is: Compaq Presario SR1403WM, Win XP Home SP2 w/ all current 
updates. AVG, Zone Alarm, Ad-Aware, & Spybot.


Thanks in advance for any help.


Paul W5PDA
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