Start Menu Broken

[neoform]

I've got 4.1 installed yesterday, worked great.. then a few hours ago i noticed my start menu kinda just broke.

I can't access the "all programs" menu, "run" gives me an error saying "Windows cannot create a shortcut here"..

[boggen]

right click on start, goto properties, start menu, customize, make sure you are amount is set above one.

[neoform]

It's set to 3..

personally i don't care about the missing "last used apps" bit.. it's the Programs Menu that i need access to.. i click on it and it just stares at me.

[XPero]

Try Lite version

[neoform]

i uninstalled the regular version, then put the lite version in, worked great (again) for a few days.. then my "All Programs" stopped working again. No visual glitch this time, but when i click on "All programs" it doesn't bring up the menu. "Run" and "Search" show me an error "Windows cannot create a shortcut here. Do you want the shortcut to be placed on the desktop instead?". Weird..

[XPero]

Indeed...Try a registry repairing tool or something. I cant really give an explanation to this

[Francesco]

I had this problem sometimes even when I didn't have xpize installed: probably it's a driver issue an application conflict or something like that. Try keeping xpize uninstalled and see if it happens again maybe it's not xpize's fault.

[mickmack]

this happens to nlited image with some regtweaks added. i could not find which regtweak makes this.

[rssfed23]

I have this sometimes to (MCE proper 2005).

To get it back do ctl+alt+del then close explorer.exe, then go to the applications tab and click new task, then type explorer.exe, click ok and volia your done (although you may loose some inactive tray icons)