Well, I cannot start Bridge at all, and using Ctrl Start does nothing. Ctrl Alt Shift only brings up Properties.

I had a significant problem with starting almost half of the programs and apps, which was ultimately traceable to Startup settings. MS advised to uncheck all Startup entries after running msconfig, and then removing all references to these items in the Registry. Now all is well except (AFAIK!) Bridge.

Even before cleaning up Startup, I could run PS, but not Bridge.