Bridge CS2 won't open

Hi
I rebuilt my win xp computer did a new install of the OS. I then re- installed Photoshop CS2. For a week Photoshop and bridge worked fine then on Friday I tried to open Bridge and nothing happened. Task Manager shows bridge in the Processes and using 35,520 K of memory. It is not listed as an Application and does not open at all.
I have removed Photoshop and re-installed Photoshop twice Photoshop opens but not bridge. After the un-installs I ran a registration cleanup tool but still found several Photoshop references, I did not try to remove them or modify them.
Also if I try to open Bridge with CTRL held down nothing happens it just lists Bridge as a Processes.
Any ideas? Photoshop has run on this computer with this ram and everything else since CS2 was released so the computer should not be the problem. Everything else works.
Thanks
Dennis

First check to see that bridge is not running in background. Open task manager and click on Processes tab. Check for any instance on Bridge.exe and close it if found.
I believe to reset CR2 Bridge they still used Ctrl + Alt + Shift. Try that or check online to see if that is correct.

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