search - when I click on search the window comes up including the animated dog but nothing else is there, no words or anything.
system restore - when I try to open system restore nothing comes up not even the window
Windows help and support - same here I click and nothing comes up
windows media player - when I try to open this i get "an internal application error has occured"
IE6 - I can open the browser and surf except I cannot open the windows update site and also the search window in the browser is also blank. I also tried to run a scan from trend micro and it will not start. When I use firefox the trend micro site works except it says i need to use ie to run the scan.
I have run several programs to try to find and fix the problems but no dice. here they are:
ad-aware se
nortonsystem works 2004
cw shredder
ewido
trojanhunter
pconpoint
bugdoctor
spyware snooper
avast
disc defrag
when I ran these some problems were found and fixed but the above problems remain. There may be more wayward programs that I haven"t discovered yet but this is all I know for now.
I sure hope someone has an idea cuz I'm now lost as to what to do.
Thank-you in advance for any help with this problem