"All Programs" menu missing...


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I am cleaning up a major-league messed up Windows MCE system (not mine). I have everything fixed with the exception of the "All Programs" option from the Start button. It's not that the menu is wrong. The "All Programs" isn't even there.

If I revert back to Classic menus, everything is there and the "Programs" at the top of the Menu (Win2K style) works fine. I've tried finding a setting in TweakUI, but no luck there. This isn't a Shell entry error since I can't even see the "All Programs" menu.

I've been looking for a fix, but all I run across are messed up programs that would come from the All Programs menu.

Any help would be appreciated. And I could also use help with restoring the "Restart" button from the menu, too :)

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Open RegEdit and goto the following keys:

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

Set "NoStartMenuMorePrograms" to "0"

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OK...I don't know what happened. I restarted and Puggsley fix didn't work. I found another article that said set the DWORD to 1. I tried that and rebooted. That didn't work.

Just for the hell of it, I set it back to 0, ran gpupdate and it now is back. Thanks for the help.

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this might help

You can download the default Start menu shortcuts from this site below and copy them back to your the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs folder.

http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/255/...-shortcuts.html

or xp

http://www.suggestafix.com/index.php?showtopic=28952

You woudl want to make sure c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs exists.

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