XP is being gay. basically, I have no task bar. all the icons show up on the desktop, but the taskbar doesn't. there is a small gray bar at the bottom of the screen where it's supposed to be, but when i right click on it to unlock it so I can enlarge it, unlock taskbar is grayed out

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also, there are some files on the POS that i want to keep, but for some stupid god damn reason, I can't copy or cut any of my files!
please help.