Yesterday I made a restore point, reinstalled Mcafee Virus protection which didn't work.....again. "Didn't work" means the virus protection will not update. But, since I reinstalled it I now have 2 sets of McAfee on my pc, having renamed the first install including now a (2). Neither of which shows the icon in the lower tray.
Anyway I thought this isn't good so I prompted the restore point to run. It went through its cycle and restarted and everything looked good up until the point it gave me the desktop but no icons and no message stating "your computer has been successfully restored, etc". Because the pc seemed to be hung in an endless cycle and not showing the desktop I made a hardboot. And actually I'm almost, but not quite postive, that windows was attempting an update at the same time of the hardboot. How so I'm not certain.
After the hardboot all things looked normal, but, I noticed that system restore now shows no scripting or commands options. Zero. Just a blank screen. Also this morning I noticed that "search for files/folders" is also a blank screen. No script or command options. And the virus protection still won't show the icon in the lower tray.
Obviously I've corrupted something, but WHAT?,,..and how to restore it? Is there a back door to restore, or another way to repair this problem?
Windows XP SP 2
Help would certainly be appreciated.
Gary