[LennonCook]

Originally posted by SpiritWarrior: Well, when I did that and restarted I noticed I was missing things such as shortcuts on my toolbars and the IE shortcut was gone. I could live with that -just remake 'em. Now I notice my 'volume control' (you know, the one with all the master volumes in accessories>entertainment) is gone. I can't seem to find it on the drive at all either...any suggestions of how to reverse this? I distinctly remember only having 'windows messenger' ticked when I told the windows component wizard to remove. Maybe it did something unexpected? Anyways, any help appreciated.

At a guess, the Windows Messenger icon still exists?

And the way to avoid Bad Things: Firefox + Spybot SD + AVG Free. Uninstall whatever virus protector you have first, or things could go wrong. Forgo ad-aware, it isn't what it used to be.