I must say, the info you gave is invaluable! Absolutely wonderful. My problem is that I seemed to totally be missing my uxtheme. It's gone, poof. All I get upon booting is my wallpaper. No icons, nothing. So I was wondering how I might be able to fix, or regain my uxtheme without having any icons to use? I am on a Dell laptop, Inspiron E1505. I have Windows XP Media Center Edition SP2. I cannot access my control panel for a system reboot to try and fix this how could i do that without the panel?