Vista windows desktop missing

broken window

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Dec 13, 2012
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Windows desktop will not display on screen, only the mouse pointer, that will not open anything.

Everything was OK until yesterday I copied my hard drive to a external one then tried to boot from the external which failed then booted from internal, above issues happens. Positive windows is open due to windows logo and opening tune works but then goes blank.

Restored to a prior date but no luck.
 

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/What-are-the-system-recovery-options-in-Windows-Vista