Question: XP start button does not work; no icons; cannot open windows? Help!  MS Office works, Firefox works, IE works; nothing else does.  Have run SpyBot, McAfee and several others; don't seem to have any bugs.  From a re-boot, if I click on 'Start' button, menu briefly appears and then goes away, not to return.  If I click on the desktop icon on the taskbar, the icons appear on the desktop, sometimes, but I cannot click on them.  Cannot open Windows Explorer or any other folders; they appear for about 1 second and go away.  HP Pavillion PC.  HP helpdesk was no help.  Any thoughts?

Answer: try running a antispyware program and antivirus (boot into safe mode and see if they will run).  otherwise do a system restore to the last known date you did not have any problems.  if you can't do that, do a repair install from your Xp cd.
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