are you the irs? this is what he posted on another forum i have an win Xp pro and for some reason its either a faulty error or a virus, my computer now has nothing on my desktop and the only way i open a window is by pressing ctrl alt del and in task manager and run task and typing c:\windows. i cannot open any .exe execpt for a I.E i cannot scan for viruses, althought i went to trend micro and scanned and found 2 viruses and got rid of them, yet it still doesnt work, cant left click. task bar is gone too, cant create a new user, rundll32 isnt working. cant do system restore. cant open regedit. and like i said, the only thing i can open is an internet explorer and access to internet is fine. here a pic of what it would look like: (the half globe thingy NIS will not show, desktop themes will not show, and the blue line at the bottom (taskbar) will not show, this is another computer, all it would have is the task manager and run task) If not it looks like you have a viruse. Time for a format