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Start menu items disappered!
I've been looking everyhwere for answers and have now
come to you all. I consider myself to be comuter literate, but this one has me lost. About a week ago I went to uninstall Activesynch after I decided I didn't need it anymore. It really messsed thigns up and took away every program in my start menu. After trying masny things to get it back I finally got it back with a system restore, but here's the thing. I've gotten everything back except it never shows many of the windows programs under accessories. The games are all gone, but besides that, many important things like Calculators, character map, disk defragmenter, disk doctor, etc. are all missing. The accessories it shows are only Net meeting and Media player. I'm afraid to re-install, because I have some very important things on there I don't want to wipe out. Every system restore just takes me back further, but just an empty accessories folder structure. I have tried searching for hte programs an manually putting them in, but I don't know everything I am missing, nor are any of them showing up in the search. Does anyone know how to reset the shortcuts without messing everything else up? thanks Tucker |
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Start menu items disappered!
If you have a retail CD just upgrade you existing XP with XP. This is =
known as a repair install. Depending on your problem's cause it may help = (it will help if they were deleted). But first search for Accessories and make sure all the advanced options = are set ON. The Accessories menu is built from two Accessories folders. = They are normally here C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories Sometimes somehow (often by dragging the menu entries about) the link to = one gets reset to point somewhere useless. A repair install should put = things back in the new location but it's easier to reset the link = correctly. To find them r/c the Accessories menu and choose Open and Open All Users = - this will go to where windows thinks they are. It should be the same = as above. "Tucker Dansie" wrote in message = ... I've been looking everyhwere for answers and have now=20 come to you all. I consider myself to be comuter=20 literate, but this one has me lost. About a week ago I=20 went to uninstall Activesynch after I decided I didn't=20 need it anymore. It really messsed thigns up and took=20 away every program in my start menu. After trying masny=20 things to get it back I finally got it back with a system=20 restore, but here's the thing. I've gotten everything=20 back except it never shows many of the windows programs=20 under accessories. The games are all gone, but besides=20 that, many important things like Calculators, character=20 map, disk defragmenter, disk doctor, etc. are all=20 missing. The accessories it shows are only Net meeting=20 and Media player. =20 I'm afraid to re-install, because I have some very=20 important things on there I don't want to wipe out. Every=20 system restore just takes me back further, but just an=20 empty accessories folder structure. I have tried=20 searching for hte programs an manually putting them in,=20 but I don't know everything I am missing, nor are any of=20 them showing up in the search. Does anyone know how to=20 reset the shortcuts without messing everything else up? =20 thanks Tucker |
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Start menu items disappered!
"Tucker Dansie" wrote:
I've been looking everyhwere for answers and have now come to you all. I consider myself to be comuter literate, but this one has me lost. About a week ago I went to uninstall Activesynch after I decided I didn't need it anymore. It really messsed thigns up and took away every program in my start menu. After trying masny things to get it back I finally got it back with a system restore, but here's the thing. I've gotten everything back except it never shows many of the windows programs under accessories. The games are all gone, but besides that, many important things like Calculators, character map, disk defragmenter, disk doctor, etc. are all missing. The accessories it shows are only Net meeting and Media player. I'm afraid to re-install, because I have some very important things on there I don't want to wipe out. Every system restore just takes me back further, but just an empty accessories folder structure. I have tried searching for hte programs an manually putting them in, but I don't know everything I am missing, nor are any of them showing up in the search. Does anyone know how to reset the shortcuts without messing everything else up? Are you able to see the missing shortcuts in documents and settings\ yourname\ start menu \ programs\ accessories? Be sure to designate hidden folders and files in control panel \folder options \ view. |
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