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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Customization / July 2007Start Menu Problems
When clicking on the Start button and selecting All Programs, nothing happens. No list of programs appears. Is there a registry setting that needs to be set/reset? Also on this machine, right-clicking on the Start button has no effect. Is there a way to enable this menu as well? Thanks in advance. Hi Bill: Let's try this: Go to My Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Documents and Settings > double-click on the folder with your user account name. Do you see a folder named Start Menu? If you don't see a folder named Start Menu it was deleted by you, someone who has access to your computer, or a virus or some other malicious software. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est > When clicking on the Start button and selecting All Programs, nothing > happens. No list of programs appears. Is there a registry setting that [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Thanks in advance. Yes, the Start Menu folder is there. - Bill > Hi Bill: > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > > > Thanks in advance. Open the Start Menu folder - are your program shortcuts there? --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est > Yes, the Start Menu folder is there. - Bill > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >>> >>> Thanks in advance. Leonard - Yes, there are a few folders and a couple of programs in there. These show up the left side of the Start Menu. But nothing happen when you click on the All Programs entry. I hope I'm explaining this clearly enough. - Bill > Open the Start Menu folder - are your program shortcuts there? > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > >>> > >>> Thanks in advance. Do you not see the shortcuts to the programs that formerly appeared when you clicked on All Programs? If not, you or someone/something else removed them. If you do see them, but they don't appear when you click on Start > All Programs then you or someone/something has been fiddling with your registry. If you have a recent restore point from before this problem occurred, try going back to that restore point. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est > Leonard - Yes, there are a few folders and a couple of programs in there. > These show up the left side of the Start Menu. But nothing happen when you [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance. Okay. One final point. Programs have been installed on this computer very recently (yesterday). Even these newly installed programs do show up. So something is either disabling the All Programs selection or even new programs are not being added to the Start Menu. > Do you not see the shortcuts to the programs that formerly appeared when > you clicked on All Programs? If not, you or someone/something else [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks in advance. Oops, I meant: Even these newly installed programs do NOT show up.. Sorry. > Okay. One final point. Programs have been installed on this computer very > recently (yesterday). Even these newly installed programs do show up. So [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > > >>>>> > > >>>>> Thanks in advance. Hello, I don't know if this relates to your error exactly, but please try this: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/AllPrograms.htm Greetings, P. Di Stolfo  Signature//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // http://blog.lysorp.com - small Windows Blog in German language //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > When clicking on the Start button and selecting All Programs, nothing > happens. No list of programs appears. Is there a registry setting that [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Thanks in advance. Hey, this looks like exactly what we need. I will track down an administrator and give it a try. Thanks!!! > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > > > Thanks in advance. Thanks you for all your help. Unforunately, this did not solve the problem. All the correct settings appear to be in the registry. > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > > > Thanks in advance. |
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