All desktop icons gone, Files closes

[Jargon3.14]

None of my desktop icons are visible, and as soon as I open the Files manager it closes right away. None of the "Places" locations will open. files are still there just not visible can anyone help me? I am not super savvy with Linux so please be patient if I don't understand a complex response.

I am running Kali Linux 2.0 (32bit) on an old Toshiba Satellite Laptop.'

I am not getting any error messages

Misc: I just finished recovering my system from a crash after an attempted upgrade to Rolling Kali that left me crashing in start up every time, leaving me only access to the terminal. I finally got this fixed by using the "purge" command on the nvidia drivers (even though I think the laptop is running integrated intel graphics accelerator)

I have already tried changing my source.list to the rolling.source list and the sana source list and running the update/upgrade and neither of which has helped.

Additionally i have now discovered that i have no audio as well. In the top right pull-down menu there isn't even an icon next to the top slider bar