I have a problem with an HP machine and hoped someone might know how to get rid of it. What happened is I ran the HP recovery software from the backup partition to fix a windows error, and now I can get into windows XP fine but loads of the installed programs don't work. It seems to have backed up all the files and settings, but like I said half the programs installed wont run. I believe I had the same problem a while ago using the XP recovery console a while back and couldnt figure out a fix, but if anyone knows one please let me know as Im totally stuck.