Hello! I desperately need some computer help as I'm a 3rd year university student and my laptop just recently suffered a heart attack.

I was browsing some music websites, left to have a shower, came back, and this program called Rapid Antivirus had magically installed itself on my laptop. It kept flashing nasty popups and saying my computer was being ATTACKED by various things... I did a Spyware scan, and it turns out the Rapid Antivirus was a trojan virus and I had about 4 or 5 on there from this one program thingy. I deleted them all from my regedit, going by the files LABELLED as tainted from my AVG scanner, and then, as my AVG told me to do, I closed down explorer.exe in my task manager.

Then... POOOOF... KABOOM. I had to restart my laptop cause nothing was showing on my desktop. After restarting it, nothing... and I mean like nothing, worked. I could no longer access the internet, I can't do a system restore (each time it tells me to restart my computer because it cannot do it at this time.) I cannot copy/paste any files or use the 'sent to' option, I can't open picture documents, change icons on my desktop, and a number of programs are unusable. In control panel, I can't change a number of things or access programs such as Help & Support or error scanners. I get errors with a number of things that I do.

After a while, I get a message saying my computer has encountered a problem and needs to shutdown in 00:59 seconds. When it is shutting down, it says Explorer.exe is unresponsive and needs to quit. If I don't get that message, often my screen may just freeze up altogether and leave me wailing. I have TRIED RUNNING it on safemode too, but the same problems PRESIST.

?!?!?!?!

Really, if this problem is totally unfixable, I would really just love to know how to be able to copy/paste and send-to again so that I can transfer my important documents to a mini disk and just use the default system restoration by pressing F11 on startup that deletes everything off my computer to return it to the manufacture condition. :'<

PLEASE HELP ME. Thank you very much for ANY insights. I am currently on a computer at work, and reaaaally can't afford to buy a new laptop. (Also I'm pretty sure I don't have Windows XP to reinstall on my computer, but again, I have important files that I want to rescue from certain ruin!)