Aston Shell program - messed up my PC big time

[inflames988]

I installed a program called aston shell reccomended by a friend, and let me tell you this thing is TOTALLY destroying my PC. It allows you to change the appearance of your whole windows GUI basically like a skin-similar to windowBlinds. First of all, it WAS working fine, but now problems have started to occur. I got some weird message on the start bar while in Aston that was like "if everything seems OK, youre probably missing something ;)" which makes me think that this prog. installed a virus of some sort. oddly enough i did get a virus warning message but it was from portable GIMP (photo editing software.), so i deleted that. now the windows messenger thing keeps coming up on the bottom right, which is usually NEVER there. finally, the pc is godawfully SLOW with a dual core 4400+ and 2 gigs of super fast RAM. It goes to the welcome screen, sits ther a while, goes to the thing that lets oyu pick between aston and the regular XP interface, and then i click that and it takes a while to load the interface. I tried removing aston, but when i do that i have NOTHING! no start bar, no windows, just a mouse going over a blank screen. I tried a system restore but it left the program on there. what can i do?!

[ktkendall]

A repair installation of windows may be the fix.

[newbuilder14]

I used to do the same thing until I too, experienced how these programs mess up your shell32 and the files necessary to create the Windows GUI.

Look in C:\WINDOWS\Resources and make sure nothing looks out of the ordinary.

[pam123]

I don't know if anything other that a full repair reinstall will save you but remember this for the future : Any thing that can mess with the desktop in that way can destroy your install.