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Start menu won't show
Name: Herrasmies Date: January 9, 2007 at 15:30:59 Pacific OS: Windows XP home CPU/Ram: P4 2600 / 512 Product: Intel
Comment:
Out of the blue, the start menu stopped showing up. To illustrate, here's a picture: www.kolumbus.fi/heikki.palomaki/joo.jpg (In that screencap I have clicked on the start menu).
Any suggestions? Registry problems? I tried to run system recovery, and it didn't help.
Name: Herrasmies Date: January 9, 2007 at 16:12:45 Pacific
Reply:
I tried that also, didn't work :( Although it was a .reg file.
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Response Number 3
Name: per Date: January 9, 2007 at 16:18:11 Pacific
Reply:
Did you use 117 left side?
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Response Number 4
Name: Herrasmies Date: January 9, 2007 at 16:30:56 Pacific
Reply:
Yes, that exactly.
I noticed something else:
From the properties of the start-palk (or what is it in English, right click-properties in the blue area) I can change into the "win xp mode" (I normally have the "traditional view" of the start menu) view of the start menu, and then it opens up. However, the same problem remains when trying to view "all programs" (I edited out the programs I have, to protect my privacy :D)
Name: Herrasmies Date: January 9, 2007 at 16:46:16 Pacific
Reply:
The problem isn't quite the same, as the menus are not only transparent, but also nonexistent :P As in I can't open anything inside the invisible frames :D
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Response Number 10
Name: PhilC Date: January 9, 2007 at 17:11:49 Pacific
Reply:
I notice from your jpg have opened your Explorer File and edited it. Your green start menu button has your name on it maybe? Did you change any other values apart from the name in Explorer that is on your start button?
PhilC
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Response Number 11
Name: Herrasmies Date: January 10, 2007 at 11:50:16 Pacific
Reply:
Ah, should have mentioned of course:
"Käynnistä" is Finnish for "Start". It's a Finnish installation of Windows XP home, and I haven't edited any values...
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