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by nhughes79

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This is probably a simple thing, but its been bothering me for a while. On some of my users machines, when you right click on the start button, some of the options are missing or greyed out. Does anyone know of a way to edit this options or enabled those options that are seemingley disabled???

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Neil Hughes

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by dmiles

A guess would be to click on Start>Settings,select Takbar and Start Menu to adjust the menu.

by marence

I've narrowed it down to "something in the registry" - after a nasty crash, I reinstalled Win98SE and no longer have the option to "Explore" from the shortcut menu on the Start button. I'll be monitoring this question in the hope that someone knows WHERE in the registry...

by michael cantrell

This should help you all, straight from Microsoft.

Commands Unavailable on Start Button Context Menu

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The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 98

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SYMPTOMS
When you right-click the Start button, the Open and Explore commands may be unavailable.

CAUSE
This behavior can occur if you use the TweakUI tool to hide one or more drives.

RESOLUTION
To resolve this behavior, unhide any hidden drives. To do so, follow these steps:

Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.

Double-click TweakUI.

Click the My Computer tab, and then click any cleared check boxes to select them.

Click Apply, and then click Close.

Restart your computer.

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