Weird Issues with XP Pro

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Sounds like a virus. try some of the online virus scanners like
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ also check out
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/useraccbg.htm the second option fixed my issues
with the user accounts.

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"Richy" <Richy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0506EF5A-BBD6-41DF-965D-7CDB04AF3B56@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> Have been away on business and returned to be told by the wife that the
> computer was playing up.
> Upon investigation, the obvious things are as follows.
> a) No start/programs menu
> b) No Favourites menuin IE, although you can access them by clicking on
> the
> star
> c) Unable to access start/control panel/user accounts. No icons are
> displayed, but there is a message which says "wrong number of arguments or
> invalid property assignment"
> d) Unable to do a system restore from any restore point.
> e) some weird message from Norton AV 2005 about not being able to run MSI
> which will not go away unless you tell it not to scan MSN messages.
>
> Other than that it seems to be functioning ok.
>
> Any suggestions before i decide to trash it and start again?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Richy