Problem with services on XP Pro

I have a laptop that was cleared of viruses and spyware a month ago but a problem has started occuring where nothing appears in the network connections folder and no printers appear in the printers folder.
When i check the services there are only 9 running.
I am starting in Normal mode, but it looks like the services that are starting are the ones that would start in safe mode.
I cleared the Application Event log and restarted and thses are the errors appearing:


Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is driving me mad

Code:

These Windows services are started:    Cryptographic Services    DCOM Server Process Launcher    Event Log    Help and Support    Logical Disk Manager    Plug and Play    Remote Procedure Call (RPC)    System Restore Service    Windows Management Instrumentation The command completed successfully. Event Type:   Error Event Source:   DCOM Event Category:   None Event ID:   10005 Date:      14/05/2006 Time:      23:36:35 User:      NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer:   ACER-KQJM6RKK68 Description: DCOM got error "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode " attempting to start the service EventSystem with arguments "" in order to run the server: {1BE1F766-5536-11D1-B726-00C04FB926AF} For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Event Type:   Error Event Source:   DCOM Event Category:   None Event ID:   10005 Date:      14/05/2006 Time:      23:37:40 User:      ACER-KQJM6RKK68\Sean Fogarty Computer:   ACER-KQJM6RKK68 Description: DCOM got error "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode " attempting to start the service netman with arguments "" in order to run the server: {BA126AE5-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E} For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Event Type:   Error Event Source:   DCOM Event Category:   None Event ID:   10005 Date:      14/05/2006 Time:      23:37:40 User:      ACER-KQJM6RKK68\Sean Fogarty Computer:   ACER-KQJM6RKK68 Description: DCOM got error "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode " attempting to start the service netman with arguments "" in order to run the server: {BA126AD1-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E} For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Event Type:   Error Event Source:   DCOM Event Category:   None Event ID:   10005 Date:      14/05/2006 Time:      23:37:43 User:      NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer:   ACER-KQJM6RKK68 Description: DCOM got error "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode " attempting to start the service EventSystem with arguments "" in order to run the server: {1BE1F766-5536-11D1-B726-00C04FB926AF} For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Event Type:   Error Event Source:   DCOM Event Category:   None Event ID:   10005 Date:      14/05/2006 Time:      23:37:59 User:      ACER-KQJM6RKK68\Sean Fogarty Computer:   ACER-KQJM6RKK68 Description: DCOM got error "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode " attempting to start the service EventSystem with arguments "" in order to run the server: {1BE1F766-5536-11D1-B726-00C04FB926AF} For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.