Kelly, I'm not sure what you mean by "...can you use that somehow". Are you referring 
to the restore point? You can try restoring your system to that date, if you want 
to go back that far, but there's no guarantee that'll solve the problem.

Depending on what caused all those shortcuts to disappear, restoring a registry backup 
may work. That's the only problem, i.e. shortcuts missing on your start menu, correct? 

There's not much time though, since Windows only creates 5 backups by default. That 
means there needs to be a "good" backup dated prior to when this problem arose. In 
Windows ME you need a floppy boot disk (startup disk) in order to access those backups. 
If you don't have one, you can create one. 

To create a disk: Get a blank floppy diskette, go into Add/Remove programs. Click 
Startup Disk tab, then stick the floppy disk in drive and choose Create disk. Then 
boot with the startup disk in the floppy drive. 

At the A:\> prompt, type: C: scanreg /restore then press Enter. Choose a backup 
with the word Started, dated before this happened. Follow the prompts to restore 
the backup.

You should get a message that Windows successfully restored the registry. Then CTRL_ALT_DEL 
to get back into Windows.

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