In jhaven had this to say:
My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
When I used system restore, and restarted my computer, explorer.exe
could not run. How can I fix this?
Restore to a new time... Or undo the restore... Or, alternatively, try
starting it manually and seeing if that did the trick...
Missing Icons and Taskbar:
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/missing_desktop-icons_taskbar.html
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whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes