[Phaneuf3]

hahaha that sounds awesome.

i'm not confident it would help but one of the first things i would try is booting into safe mode just to see if it will do anything different.


edit: just a question regarding command prompt launching media center - are you running the command prompt by clicking on an icon from your start menu? If so: try hitting the windows key + r, type 'cmd' without the quotes into the window that pops up and hit enter. Basically, is it just something that messed up your shortcuts or is it doing something really funky?
Also, bring up your task manager and see if there's anything curious looking running.

edit the second: after re-reading your last post it sounds like it just messed up your shortcuts. If you want to try the built in windows system restore hit the windows key + r again and type 'rstrui' without the quotes. to be honest, i'm not all that up on vista or its system restore functionality so it may or may not do the trick but if i had to guess i'm leaning towards the latter.