amadeus

Thank you! Everything came back, including the games. So it wasn't ccleaner after all was it? If not, what could have caused it?

maybe it wasn't ccleaner? I system restored back to a month, Paint was still missing. Oh, and all the games are missing too, you know, like Pinball.

Nope, it didnt. It just said "could not be found...". Still, maybe it wasnt ccleaner... maybe it was noadware? I'll try a restore point. I have Windows XP Pro SP 2

Was ccleaner supposed to delete Microsoft Paint and Word Pad? How do I get them back now? Sorry if this is an idiotic noob question! Does it delete anything else like the above that I should know about?