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Got rid of the malware, now I need to get desktop back

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Preferred User
October 26, 2009, 10:52 PM UTC
My physical therapist crashed her computer and being a good guy I offered to help.

When I first booted up the computer I just got the wallpaper no other functionality. System would not boot into Safe Mode without BSOD.

I used UBCD4Win backed up her files and removed the malware and viruses. I imported Registry keys to restore Safe Mode functionality. However I still cannot restore the desktop even in Safe Mode. Also there is no keyboard functionality so I cannot access Task Manager to manually start explorer.exe.

Is there anything short of an OS reinstall to fix this?
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October 27, 2009, 5:44 AM UTC
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