Vista - Spider Solitaire, Hearts and Mahjong will not start

Any program I have used before (eg Spider solitaire, Hearts and Mahjong) will
no longer start. Start menu> Games shows the games listed but when I click
on them nothing happens. However, if I click on a game I haven't played
before such a chess it starts up.

Background, because I am addicted to some of these games I will turn them
off using Windows Features and only turn them on when I want them. This
problem only started happening after I turned three of them on again. Now
even if I turn them off and then on again nothing happens.

At least this has cured my addiction but has anyone any suggestions?