Infection Preventing Windows Task Bar from Appearing
May 22, 2009 Computer Safety Tip
Have you ever had an infection on your computer that prevents Windows from fully loading? Your infection is 
messing around with Windows Explorer which is what you need in order to navigate your computer.
You can get it easily running again by holding down the Windows key and pressing R. Once you see the run command, type explorer.exe and click OK.
If this does not solve the problem of explorer not running, you are going to have to go into the registry. Hold down the Windows key and press R. Once you see the run command, type regedit and click OK.
Now navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES\Software\Microsoft\
Windows NT\Current Version\WinLogon\Shell. You want shell to say explorer.exe so double click shell, type in explorer.exe and click OK. If the shell entry is not there, right click in right hand panel and click New>String Value. Call it shell. Double click shell, type in explorer.exe and click OK.
While you are in the registry go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Run. Everything in there is designed to run before explorer.exe is loaded, so look for anything with the name of your rogue program in it, select and press delete.
Restart your computer and you can now start removing the infection.
