Can only see desktop background & windows are blank

My computer (a G4 MDD) is not starting up properly. It will start up but icons, the dock, and text in the menu bar will not appear. It appears the computer works. I had an alert pop up which only appeared as a white window box. I couldn't read it. I only knew what it said because I previously had set up for alerts to be read by the computer. I was able to hit enter and the window went away. Looks like I strictly can not see anything on the computer. I can't find any info on this anywhere. Hope someone can help! (Also, this happened after the computer was forced off during a software update -- of what, I'm not 100% since I wasn't there but I believe it was at least iTunes and a Security Update.)

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Firstly please update the driver and in addition you can try below registry workaround.
To do this, change the value of the following registry subkeys to 3 (Manual) or 4 (Disabled)：
•HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\cdrom
Name: Start
Type : REG_DWORD
Data: 3 or 4
•HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\parport
Name: Start
Type : REG_DWORD
Data: 3 or 4
Note: If the above registry is changed to 4 (Disabled), the related device is not usable because a driver used in the device is not loaded. Therefore, if the device will be used in the future, the above registry should be set as 3 (Manual).
More information.
1.KB 933757
2. Event ID 7026 — Basic Service Control Manager Operations
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki

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