I've got a Dell N5030 with Win7 32bit - used to be 64 bit but a computer repair shop reinstalled 32 after they fixed a hard drive issue.
I start up and enter my password fine, the desktop appears. But I try and click on an icon, whether its the desktop or the bottom bar and nothing happens. Start menu doesn't appear either. It started right after I downloaded and installed iOS 6 for my iPhone. I'm still not sure if this is related. But right after installing ios6, iTunes froze. Nothing happened and I restarted the laptop. Upon signing in, the desktop appeared but I couldn't do anything. I've started in safe mode but I don't really get it. It works fine but I can't use my computer in safe mode for ever. All I know from this is that it's not the default settings or core drivers. I can't really afford another trip to the repair shop and end up paying another £40 to sort it out let alone buy another computer.
I'm not sure if I've left anything out - if some vital info is missing let me know in your answer and I'll add extra details.