By running the system recovery you basically restored the desktop to the last time you ran the restore wizard to create a file to restore from in case of failure. If you have never created that file you have restored to its original state. Files still will be there but i hate to tell you this programs are gone. Time to start looking. If you need anything or have any more questions feel free to post up here or email me directly @
mersnow8@aol.com
Hope this helps,
Matt Rybar