ShadedLotus
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I run Windows Vista 32-bit Home Edition Premium. I recently encountered some spyware ( Internet Security 2010) and possibly some viruses. In addition to disabling my task manager feature, they deleted my Mal-Byte's AntiMalware program and prevented me from re-installing it. As I no longer had access to an adequate virus removal program, I decided to use the manual removal instructions that I found on [url-http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-internet-security-2010.html]this[/url] website. One of the steps was to delete the registry settings installed by the viruses/spyware. So, as the site suggested, I ran the "regedit" command. Immediately after I clicked "run," a blue screen appeared. I had encountered this a few times already while dealing with this infection, so I simply waited for my PC to restart and logged back into my account. After logging into my account, however, I noticed that there was no desktop; there was only a black screen. I could see and move my cursor, and I could bring up the cntrl+alt+delete menu (minus the task manager, as I said earlier), yet nothing on the desktop would appear. I tried starting it in safe mode, but that did not solve anything. To make it worse, I never remembered to set a restore point, so I can't use that. Does anyone have suggestions as to what I can do? I thought about using the restore disk that came with my computer, but I'd rather not format my harddrive unless I absolutely have to.