i'm a complete novice at IT so please bear with me........
i went to start my pc, only to find it taking longer than usual to boot up.
when it finally booted up, i had no desktop icons ( just the wallpaper) and no task bar. this cause a proplem as i could not access or run any programs.
the only thing that i could get to work was the task manager......
on checking this i could see that the explorer.exe process was running at 99, and is using 100% cpu power.
i'm stuck, as i can,t seem to run anything or do any checking.
system
xp home
p4 - 1.3
norton 2002


please help

Andy