re: Empty Start Menu
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by GaryCantley
(183 messages posted)
I think your problem here, David, is not so much "how can I get my menu's back" but
more of "hell, the wife is going to beat me up about this for ever more"!!
Good Luck mate, you may well need it :)
On Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 2:59 pm, David wrote:
>I ran a search for this but it seems like delete and start menu are the two most
>popular keywords in the forum so apologies if I am duplicating. On the other hand
>I am fairly confident that no one else could be quite as monumentally idiotic as
>I was so hopefully this is a first.
>
>A few days ago I installed a free utility suit to see how it fared against System
>Mech before I renewed my licence.
>
>During the install my system (Vista 64bit) froze for a couple of minutes, I assumed
>a vista-ism and let it carry on. In the end the install successful sign came up
and
>I clicked on the start menu to run the program and found something a little odd.
>In the All Programs menu at the top were 2 new files called All Programs, when I
>clicked on them they expanded into carbon copies of my start menu.
>
>I probably should have rebooted at that point just in case but it was late, I was
>tired and just deleted them (I know, I know!). No problem for the time being, I
ran
>the software used a few other apps, shut down and went to bed. Next day when I booted
>up there were no short cuts in All Programs in my start menu, it was completely
blank.
>I checked my wife's login hers was the same all blank and the folders I deleted
were
>not in the recycle bin.
>
>I have temporarily fixed the problem by manually creating folders in the All Users
>Start Menu folder and creating short cuts for all the programs I can think I use.
>I have tried system restore and acronis image but nothing repopulates the start
menu.
>
>Does anyone have any idea at all of how to restore the start menu other than reinstalling
>my software?
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- Empty Start Menu (David: Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 2:59 pm)
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