Windows 7: Taskbar unrensponsive after boot, clicking on anything on the desktop freezes the PC.

[Samuka97]

The thread's title sums up the problem. After booting, right after my wallpaper comes up my taskbar freezes and becomes unresponsive. I can still put my mouse over icons on my desktop and they highlight, but if I click them the entire PC just freezes.

I'm currently sending this from Safe Mode after trying to use Startup repair to fix the problem to no avail. What do?

[editline]14th April 2012[/editline]

Oh yeah, also Ctrl + Alt + Del and Ctrl + Shift + Del don't do anything.

[djjkxbox360]

If safe mode works then I'm guessing it's a virus or some program crashing it. Try an anti virus scan in safe mode

[Samuka97]

[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;35573962]If safe mode works then I'm guessing it's a virus or some program crashing it. Try an anti virus scan in safe mode[/QUOTE]
I ran a virus scan and found nothing, although I searched a bit more and found someone that was stuck in the "Starting Windows" screen and decided to give their solution a try. So I did bootsect /nt60 all in the Startup Repair prompt and left it booting for like 10 minutes or so since the screen was completely black, and it's back to working now.