"My computer" no longer exists

I recently installed a problem called EnhanceMySe7en and tried a few tweaks however things didn't really turn out as I had planned.

I made a system restore point before I made the changes, but then when I tried to restore it back, it says there were no points available ... Thats wierd coz I've made 3 restore points over the last 3 days as I've been changing stuff.

Anyways I would love it if anyone knows a possible fix for the problems I've encounterd.

1) The "my computer" link has dissapeared from the start menu (no option to re-add in the startmenu properties)
2) When I open "my computer" shorcut from rocketdock I get no drives showing up
3) Option to add my computer icon to desktop greyed out
4) "My computer" is no longer in the left pane of explorer (libraries and network etc are still there). It means I can't browse to my files. I can only if it lets me type in an address like C:\windows etc... but in some browse dialogs I'm locked out completely
5) Another unrelated issue in my shutdown menu. I have logoff, sleep, hibernate, restart options in my shutdown menu, but no shutdown

I suspect with the My Computer issue that its deleted some registry keys pointing to it... please let me know if you have any ideas how to fix it. Thanks

It sounds like you found the setting to hide all drives, i don't have the program to look but if you can't find it use this tutorial.Drive - Hide or Unhide - Vista Forums

Orbital Shark said:

I've not located any registry key for the 'Computer' shortcut. Does the software you used have an option to restore a previous tweak?

It's the only option I can think of.

yeh ... as far as I saw it only gave the option to use windows restore point, and for some reason there was no restore point even though I made 3. Thanks for you suggestion though.

Its not just the shortcut thats gone, but it seems the whole of My computer =/ so maby its multiple registry entries I'm not sure.

YupYup said:

It sounds like you found the setting to hide all drives, i don't have the program to look but if you can't find it use this tutorial.Drive - Hide or Unhide - Vista Forums

Thanks mate I'll give it a go and report back

YupYup said:

It sounds like you found the setting to hide all drives, i don't have the program to look but if you can't find it use this tutorial.Drive - Hide or Unhide - Vista Forums

ok no joy there... sorry to report
I tried enabling and then disabling hide all drives option in the program
and then use the group policy options, but still the same scenario.
It must be something deeper or more sinister than simply hiding the drives, and the "my computer" doesn't exist any more in whatever form

Orbital Shark said:

I think your only option (other than a re-install) may be a Repair Install

Hope this helps :)

ok thanks mate... I might reinstall with the new build... only one thing is stopping me. I would "have to" have a patched uxtheme.dll for that build as I'm working on making custom visual styles for win 7 at the moment.