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Good evening, I recently downloaded a file from a 'dubious' source and managed to install a self-reprocating Trojan on my system - I know, I'm a dunce! The upshot is, I put the hard drive in an enclosure and scanned it,found the offending files and 'healed' them. Problem is, when I put the HDD back in the PC and booted up, the PC gets to the desktop, still showing my chosen wallpaper, but no icons or menu bar. I can use task manager to open .exe files and they appear to run with stability. However, I can not open Explorer or IE7 as Windows - they appear and then almost immediately vanish. Short of a 'format and install' of the HDD, does any body have a fix for this please? Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hello, I don't have an answer for you but I had the same problem following an automatic update from Microsoft! I had Windows MCE installed and was able to view the UK freeview channels. Installed the update, rebooted and no more TV! I rescanned and everything pointed to the channels being there but I couldn't access the TV Guide which made me suspicious - hey presto! no TV channels Anyway, I was fortunate enough to have Nero 7 Ultra loaded and I use that now to view all the UK freeview channels - so don't be too hasty to blame the hardware, it's just possible that those nice people at Microsoft have &%**$£$ your system. Sorry I can't offer a more concrete solution but I found this worked for me. Best of luck.