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I would first scan for viruses.
Your program files or shortcuts have been corrupted.

You then may need to edit each shortcut so that it will point to the correct program folder and file.

There are 3 ways to do this;
1. Get one of the systemregistry repair tools such as Norton windoctor, or Meijenix Fix-It. Both are very good at repairing shortcuts.
2. Re-install all of your programs. If you have a bad virus infection, you may need to start over anyway.
3. Manually repair each shortcut. For the desktop icons, you just right click on them, and select properties. Then click on find target, and browse to the correct drive\folder\program name.
If you just added a new drive, it may have changed the drive letter for some of your programs, and you just need to edit the drive letter in the target and start-in lines of the shortcut.

Hi,

It may be that your "path" environment variable is wrong.

Start a DOS window and type set

look for the PATH statement. It should include c:\windows\system and c:\windows\system32

If it doesn't you've got a problem and need to fixit... How you do that depends on your operating system... so let us know what it is and we'll let you know how to fix it...

Cheers,
Tim.