Just before resorting to repariring the XP, I thought of looking back to the original Google desktop problem. I end up going to my friend's home and trying deinstalling more things ("XP Styles", an antivirus), deactivating shell extensions, running Ad-Aware, using Process Explorer and FileMon and RegMon, restoring XP to an older saved state, and nothing worked. Apparently the deinstallation succeeded and the error dialog disappeared, but the taskbar still won't show up. We opened regedit and looked for Google and found the UninstallString of Google desktop and ran it. One thing however: before executing anything from the task manager, an error dialog telling something about some Google file missing was shown. I told her to run "explorer.exe" from the task manager, but the taskbar just flashed in and out. This friend called me because when logging into Windows XP, just the wallpaper was shown: no taskbar or icons appeared. I did not found the solution in Google and thus it should be useful to put it somewhere. This is a practical post to document a Windows XP problem a friend of mine has had.
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