The program (a proprietary program) asked to reboot (I was not manning the
install) and when we rebooted and logged back into windows something very
strange happens: The taskbar flicks on and goes off permanently, there is
only desktop wallpaper (one of the windows default bitmaps). When I tried
Ctrl+Alt+Delete there is absolutely nothing listed in the taskmanager window.
I tried pushing the start menu key on my keyboard and got a Kernel 32 error,
and I could not click on the details button to see what they were. The only
thing that fixed this Kernel 32 error was turning off the comptuer; I had no
keyboard or mouse functions after this happened.

Booting into safemode produces the same result.