I've never seen this happen before and it has me stumped. I'm running Windows XP Professional w/ SP1.
When I click on 'Start' then right-click on 'My Computer' and select 'Properties' nothing happens. The 'My Computer' properties sheet never comes up. I can only get it to come up if I go through Control Panel and double-click 'System' from there.
Then, when it does pull up from there, it is incomplete only showing a few of the sheets. I've attached a screenshot below of what comes up.