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by petemiki

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Can someone please help with this prob. In order to try and fix something I set my computer to a certain restore point which didn't work so I tried another restore point. When the comp restarted I had hardly any desktop icons and when I went to the start menu progams not only was most of the list missing but anything left was empty. I have also lost my Restore Points so can't try that one again. I have looked at a lot of stuff but can't find anything that either a) pinpoints the whole problem or b) I can understand in laymens terms.
Can anyone help its sooo frustrating

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by dma69593

I don't know how to pinpoint your problem, but to place items back into the start menu, right click the taskbar, select properties, select the start menu tab and then click on customize. From here, you can check the boxes you want to appear on your start menu.

That's the only thing I can help you with.
Best of luck

by artcaffrey

possible registry corruption or Shell32.dll issue.
as a workaround if you right-click on your task bar, left-click on "Properties" from the Pop-up menu, left-click on the Start Menu tab of the resultant "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties", change from "Start Menu" to "Classic View" this should allow display of more contents.

see also post at https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=220088&messageID=2288674

by doug butler

We had a user (WinXP,SP2) with the same issue all of a sudden. I searched and found someone else who had this happen. For whatever reason, the Documents and Settings folder had become hidden.

Log in as an Administrator, and use any of several methods to un-assert the Hidden attribute on the Documents and Settings folder. (In my case, I changed folder views to show hidden files and folders in Explorer, then simply right-clicked on Documents and Settings and un-checked Hidden. I had it apply this to all subfolders.)

by techprofessor

Ok guys allow the professor to explain how this problem is solved! Click start, menu pops up BLANK...place your cursor on the blank area, then right click..properties will pop up, click properties..make sure your RADIO button is on "start menu" then click "customise" then "advanced" on the start menu list check "Display as link" for all that you want to see on the menu; that's it from TechProfessor.

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