re: Start menu error message
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 5:21 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by indivisible
(3 messages posted)
If you look at your start menu you will see that the left side has shortcuts to commonly
used programs. You have too many programs trying to display and this is generating
the message you're getting.
If you right click the start menu > properties > start menu tab > customise > general
tab.
Under "Programs" you can select the number of items to be remembered and displayed.
I believe this number does not take "pinned items" into account. Meaning that you
can choose to pin as many items to the upper half (above the divide) by dragging
shortcuts there and then have x shortcuts remembered below.
You are getting this message because the combined pinned items and remembered programs
are too many to be displayed at once on the start menu. You should remove some pinned
items, decrease the number of remembered or you can increase the space you have to
work with by making the icons smaller (option on the same tab as the previous).
On Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 5:00 am, will2 wrote:
>After losing my hard-disk and re-installing Windows, soon after I must have done
>something wrong (I forget what!) because now when clking on 'Start', I sometimes
>get an annoying msg: "Some items cannot be shown" The msg followed on with something
>like too many items in Start menu, need to 'unbind items' - except now I can't reproduce
>the problem when I want to ! When I clk on 'Start', the popup shows 12 icons,
less
>than than I used to have befire re-installation. I have 19GB of free space on C:
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- Start menu error message (will2: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 5:00 am)
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