I did a system restore after my laptops firewall and anti virus was shut down. Once I logged back on everything seemed normal until once I logged in my desktop turned to a light blue color and all i can do was go onto the internet I couldn't even get into windows explorer through the task manager to reopen my desktop. The internet is the only thing i can access. Does anyone have any ideas of what i can do to fix this?

do you have the start menu/taskbar or any desktop icons? The light blue background is usually the windows default background. Why did you system restore in the first place?

I have the start button but can't access it and i did the system restore because of a virus that shut down my firewall and antivirus. I used my anti virus AVG to scan it but it didn't find it, so i did system restore. Also I can't get any thing on the desktop i can't even right click the desktop. The only way I can get on the internet is through the task bar.

Hum well it would seem that your system restore point is corrupt. So i would suggest (if you can) restore to a prior system restore point (there is usually alot unless you frequently clean them) or install a clean version of windows. If you want to try and fix the issue I would start looking at your system services. I'm willing to bet lots are turned off. Also have you tried booting in safe mode? If not do that and let me know if what happens.

I have tried safe mode a while ago and when i did it it kept updating every time I loged on. Can i access sytem restore through task manager some how?

What exactly do you mean updating? and can you do anything other than the task manager? I don't believe theres a way to system restore from the task manager.

all i can do is internet besides task Manager. By updating i mean that after I turn the computer on or off it says that its is updating like 1 of 3 parts or something. It hasent updated in a while lately.

and your using vista 32-bit right?

yeah, and I also accessed system restore and it said i have no restore points even though i had like ten of them before i did the firs system restore.

hum since you got to system restore can you get to anything else? Is your taskbar back? System restore saves a flash image copy of your windows at that save point. So you should have your docs and configs. As for programs you should have them too. But at this point your windows is probably corrupt. So imo find your docs, pics, and whatever. Save them and either attempt to repair your system using the os dics or do a complete format. If you need help on how to do that I can explain.