Upgraded and now nothing works. No desktop icons at all!! Totally ruined. What do I do now?

just upgraded to Yosemite and now nothing works and no desktop icons or dock!! Help what has happened? I've an iMac early 2008 and 56 gig free and 2 gig ram. This was supposed to be enough. Now lost everything. Can anyone help?

There may be a problem with UI files inside system directories, so your files are not 100% lost. You need to check it.
Do you have a recovery flash drive for OS X, bootable OS X flash drive? If so, you can boot iMac from that drive and just fix the system on your computer.
If you don't have, you should create it (at least for safety in similar situations) with another mac or pc.
Off topic: It happened to me too when I tried to replace some textures in Yosemite with textures from Mountain Lion and the process went wrong. So don't be sure that the whole system is ruined, it may just be the graphical part that crashed, but your documents are ok.

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