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"Engel" <Engel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello Bob,
>
> I would look for an appropriate restore point prior to your observation of
> the problem and do a System Restºre.
>
> Is it possible that you ran an antivirus & antispyware scan and it found and
> removed something?
>
> Or maybe you responded to some real time message and blocked something?
>
> Did you look at the system event logs?
>
> I can only speculate because you haven't provided any background prior to
> encountering your prºblem.
>
> Also before you do the System Restore you might want to bring your system up
> in Safe Mode (the F8 key after BIOS and before Windows stªrts).
>
> If the problems go away in safe mode, then you may have a bad driver.
>
>
> Another safe mode option is to use last known good configuratiºn.
>
> If that fixes the problem, then your registry may have been dªmaged.
>
> Good luck.
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>
> "Bob Kerchner" wrote:
>
>> My recent programs suddenly stopped displaying. I have checked the Start
>> Menu settings "Store and display a list of recently opened programs", and set
>> the "number of recent programs to display" (in the customize start menu) to
>> 16. I also confirmed that the registry StartMenuInit DWORD exists and is set
>> to 3. Nonetheless there are no recent programs displaying in my start menu.
>> This is not fixed by restarting. Operating system is Vista Home Premium
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>> Bob Kerchner