Bridge CD5 will not start

I am unable to start Bridge CS5. After some weeks of using Photoshop CS5(but not Bridge) with no problems until I tried to open Bridge on my Windows 7computer. A bessage asked if I wanted to link HDR Efex 2 to Bridge which I accepted. Sine then Bridge has bee inaccessible.
I uninstalled Photoshop CS5 and reinstalled it, getting a message that it had been installed successfully but it wouldn’t run, neither would Bridge. A look in the Program files folder revealed only about two or three folders scattered between the PS and Bridge entries. Started the uninstall program again but this time only the Preferences were available so I selected those. Then I reinstalled Photoshop CS5, this time getting a fuill reinstall of Photoshop and and Bridge.
Photoshop CS5 opens normally, but Bridge will not, even if I double click Bridge.exe in Program Files\Bridge.
At no time have I been able to uninstall Bridge as it does not appear in the Control Panel listing of programs.
I am able to work on images in ACR by opening it through CS5. MiniBridge will open but I get a message saying that it is waiting for the full Bridge.
Any assistance will be appreciated.
Details:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 12.0.4
Operating System: Windows 7 32-bit Service Pack 1
Note: already submiitted today before I found the sign-in

Bridge is a part of PS so if you uninstalled CS5 you uninstalled Bridge also.
It appears you need to uninstall HDR Efex2 as it is a NIK plug in and don't see what it should do for Bridge.
Then unistall CS5, run the Adobe Script Cleaner and reinstall CS5.

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