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Bob
Dell 2400 Win home xp sp3.
every thing was fine when I shut down last night.
When I turned it on today it booted to the desk top as normal but the hour glass remained and I could not open any programs from the desktop. I had to power off with the power button. I could start in safe mode so i ran AVG and Malware bytes. they did not show any problems. In safe Mode I could explore the hard drive and had no problems seeing the content. Just can't get any responce from my ICons. I did msconfig from the run box and turned off every thing in the start folder, I also did a system restore to a week ago. Any suggestions?

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