Missing Start Menu Items and Programs

[caffeinepizza]

I've had this issue in the past and never could pin-point what was causing it. I think it's one of the tweaks I'm making, since some copies of XP I sent through nLite didn't do this.

I slipstreamed harkaz SP4 v3.1b (almost immediately after it came out since I messaged him about it), but this isn't the problem.

I've attempted to figure out what was causing this before. I searched Google and here. I'm probably not wording my searches correctly if anyone else has posted on this.

I've attached my last session ini. LAST SESSION.INI

 

[GrofLuigi]

Nothing out of the ordinary in the .ini, it might be the edition - Windows XP Professional (Media Center v4.0) SP4 - 5.1.2600.6748 - English (United States).

 

Regardless of Nlite, check if the following directories exist:

 

%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\YOURCURRENTUSERNAME\Start Menu\Programs

 

and

 

%SystemDrive%\Documents and settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs

 

and if not, create the directory structure (that directory and any above it, if missing).

 

(%SystemDrive% is usually C:)

 

GL

Edited March 11, 2016 by GrofLuigi

[caffeinepizza]

Nothing out of the ordinary in the .ini, it might be the edition - Windows XP Professional (Media Center v4.0) SP4 - 5.1.2600.6748 - English (United States).

 

Regardless of Nlite, check if the following directories exist:

 

%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\YOURCURRENTUSERNAME\Start Menu\Programs

 

and

 

%SystemDrive%\Documents and settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs

 

and if not, create the directory structure (that directory and any above it, if missing).

 

(%SystemDrive% is usually C:)

 

GL

I'm not sure why it said the edition was Media Center. It was a pure XP Pro VL SP3 iso. Anyway, I made my changes without slipstreaming harkaz's pack then installed the pack afterwards and everything was there. Only change I had to make was to sysoc.inf in .\Windows because of the Windows Components in Add and Remove Programs throwing errors about missing files. (duh, because I removed them!)

 

I'll play around with it, because I wanted to slipstream it; not have to install and cleanup afterwards.