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by shaung411

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As a follow up to my previous question......

My situation lies with microsoft KB article Q312369. And I had an OEM install of XP Home then I upgraded it to XP Professional.

Does anyone know of any programs out there that automatically repair or populate the start menu?
or even bring an older version of it back (other than System Restore feature of XP)

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by thechas

Have you looked through all of the sections of the documents and settings folder?

If your old XP home start menu is available, it should be in one of the user profiles under documents and settings.
I would have to get to an XP box to check, but the folder should be user\windows\startmenu
Just copy the files over to your XP Pro identity, and you should be there.

Chas

by shaung411

The identities on my computer don't have anything but the current start menu items in it. There is nothing under docs & settings folder that has the old files.

by thechas

Since the old start menu files are not under documents and settings, the XP Pro install likely blew away all of the old XP Home system files.

You will need to re-install all of the software to get the registry links and system files requireed to run the applications.

Sorry,

Chas

by shaung411

i didn't think there was any clean way to do it.....maybe if i delete the oem install text file then re-install xp pro, it may rebuild it for me.....

thanks for the effort!!

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