Thanks for the prompt response.
I did find something useful - a post somewhere reminded me of SuperAntiSpyware, so I gave that a shot. It gave me back my taskmanager. Regedit was giving me a "anoth ...
My wife got a nice copy of Generic 10 on her computer. I put a copy of NOD32 on it (had to download and burn it on my computer), disabled her AVG 8 and ran it. It seemed to go OK that far, but I have ...