Windows XP-missing my desktop icons, task bat and Start button

[daviespw]

I can't access my start button (lost with desktop and taskbar) and therefore can't access control panel.

I've tried everything to restore my desktop, but nothing works (can't even get 'explorer.exe' to run) so I thought I'd try to find the problem in control panel (perhaps something that I have on my system that should be deleted).

How do I get into control panel?

 

[supervai]

ctrl alt del, then go to file, new task and type control panel