Hi all, thanks for previous response on media player,

I just did a reinstallation of windows xp. my start menu was cleaned out, like normal. but when i go into my program files all my programs are still there. and my disk space is the same. but when I try to run any of them, such as microsoft word, nothing happens. and there's nothing listed in add/remove programs. but the program files in windows explorer still show everthing. are the programs really still installed? or half there?