I downloaded an XP registry cleaner… in a series of tasks designed to improve my computers operation speed and power. But when I completed the registry cleaner program, my windows popup no longer functioned correctly. I included a link to a photobucket image of a screen shot… to show you what my computer is doing now.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b249/LindySoul/problem.jpg
It used to have a dark region on the top left-half of the menu, where other operations used to be. The bottom left-half was devoted to recently ran programs. But now the entire left half is recently ran programs.
deedles… system recovery isnt the solution to every problem. Id rather not have to restore years of work and software installations just to recover from a minor tweak. If it got this way simply, it can be fixed simply… and some geek has got to know how.