Help, a virus attack,only desktop's wallpaper showing, wat to do?

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Hi,

I m here with another prob

After i removed virus, i m getting only the wallpaper in desktop and nothing else.

I mean no start menu, no desktop icons no right click & left click. But only my desktop wallpaper is there shown.

I m able to run task manager through Ctrl+Alt+Del.

And I have run sfc /scannow, it asks me for my Win XP SP2 CD. It says some files r need to be copied to dllcache, when i inserted Win XP SP2 CD, then also it is not taking these files. I m inserting the right CD, then also nothing happens when i click on retry.

SO, wat to do?? Pls help.

well well..
its good than u r able to open Task Manager...

Open task manager...
under Applications Tab.. click on NEW TASK.
enter EXPLORER and hit enter..

u shd get back ur desktop icons etc..

SUDE

Nope, when i type explorer.exe, it says "Make sure u typed the correct name...."

then i think ur sys is affected wid virus whichs stopping u frm executing explorer.exe.

SUDE

are you able to boot in safe mode?

Its possible that the virus had infected(or deleted) explorer.exe and your antivirus either quarantined or deleted the file. If you are sure the virus has been completely cleaned out then you can try booting your comp into dos and copying a clean copy of explorer.exe into your %systemroot% folder. By default it is C:\Windows\

The problem's solved.

I copy & pasted explorer.exe from another system to my C:\Windows.

The virus deleted this file.

Thanx for all ur replies.

I thank you for the replies on this thread. Got this problem a little while ago.