[itchy]

I am running windows me and i instaled Ontrack's powerdesk didnt like it so i uninstalled it but after i uninstalled it the side bar on the start menu where it sais Windows Millennium ,nice and coulorfully is missing and theres just a black rectangle block instead. I tried to edit the files USER.EXE & EXPLORER.EXE but they only seem to contain the icons for RUN, SEARCH , HELP, CONTROL PANNEL .Any sugestions how to get it back ,I tried to reinstall windows over the top of itself but that didn't work i dont want to reformat and reinstall everthing that would take forever.
and i dont want to lose all the settings i have,Any help much appreciated thanks.