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You are right Martymas. This is a tool that has been very helpful.

The problem turned out to be the Trojan's that ASquared deleted. I am removing a few at a time to determin which one is attached to the GUI.

I have removed 6 instances of Trojan - Dropper.Win32.Agent .son successfully.

I'm working on removeing Trojan.Win32.Monderb.a.

I have had to use the Task Master to restore the GUI at least 3 more times.

I havn't had the chance to do this type of recovery in quite a while. At work I don't have the time to spend on recovery of the existing system. If a workstation is bad I usually just do a complete reinstall.

Thanks again for the help.

GoodScout

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shanenin and Pete_C

Thank you so much to both of you. I was able to open Task Master and run the c:\win........\rstrui.exe. I restored the GUI. I appreciate your help. Now I will try to take my own advice.

GoodScout

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I know better, and I didn't listen to myself.

I was trying to help a friend with his clogged up laptop.

HP Pavilion ze4900, 1 GB RAM, XP home SP2. Does not have the rescue disk and not available from HP.

I have run CCleaner hundreds of times on maybe 70 PC's, never had a problem. It removed TONs of Crap. On the registry cleanup I saved the changes.

I SHOULD have rebooted at this point. Duhh!

I have had great success running ASquared - virus, adware, malware, worm - scanner many times. It removed 20 high risk worms and malware, and 15 low and medium risk malware/adware.

I should have created an image before I started. Poor excuse, I didn't have my external HDD with me.

The computer will boot up fine, Windows comes up fine, log into the user account I created, and then I just get a blank blue screen (same as the wallpaper -none- that I chose for the login, not the blue screen of death). The desktop does not apear, just a hourglass/cursor.

Same with Safe Mode. Last good configuration. Repair installation with XP Pro SP2 disk will only try to install 'another' OS.

I can get to a C:\Windows promt and thus to the C:\.

Can someone please suggest a course of action. I promise to not do this again. No good deed goes unpunished.