I think it was after I used one of those windows crap cleaners that everything went wrong.
On the XP Start Menu (the new style), its not even there.
On the classic start menu, its there, but its not functional (meaning, open documents get added). It acts as a menu as it should, but all i see listed is "My Documents" and "My Pictures", then a line, and no document shortcuts listed.
I have tried a lot of things.
I checked the Start Menu preferences by right clicking the taskbar and clicking properties. The checkbox to show most recently accessed documents in the advanced tab of the customize window is checked.
I checked to see if it was TweakUI's fault. Everything looked fine with all the options relating to it.
I checked the corresponding registry entry to the start menu properties thing. It exits, and it is set to the proper DWORD value of 2. (\HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Start_ShowRecentDocs)
I checked GPedit for the proper choices. (user config -> administrative templates -> start menu and taskbar), 1 of 2 exist. the first, remove user's folders from start menu, that exists, and i changed it to disable to see if that would do anything...it did nothing. The second, remove recent documents (along that lines) doesnt exist. Didnt think much of it since have it not configured shouldnt have an effect.
I then checked the registry entries relating to the group policies (\HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer), the DWORD value NoRecentDocsMenu did not exist. the BINARY value NoRecentDocsMenu existed. I tried removing it, no avail. I tried adding the DWORD with value 0, no avail. I tried restarting after each different thing, no avail.
I did a google search for the binary, and it is a means for removing the recent docs from the start menu, by making the hex a value of 00 00 00 01...but in my registry it was set to 00 00 00 00, meaning it should be on the start menu.
Im out of ideas...can anyone provide some ideas?
Thanks
On the XP Start Menu (the new style), its not even there.
On the classic start menu, its there, but its not functional (meaning, open documents get added). It acts as a menu as it should, but all i see listed is "My Documents" and "My Pictures", then a line, and no document shortcuts listed.
I have tried a lot of things.
I checked the Start Menu preferences by right clicking the taskbar and clicking properties. The checkbox to show most recently accessed documents in the advanced tab of the customize window is checked.
I checked to see if it was TweakUI's fault. Everything looked fine with all the options relating to it.
I checked the corresponding registry entry to the start menu properties thing. It exits, and it is set to the proper DWORD value of 2. (\HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Start_ShowRecentDocs)
I checked GPedit for the proper choices. (user config -> administrative templates -> start menu and taskbar), 1 of 2 exist. the first, remove user's folders from start menu, that exists, and i changed it to disable to see if that would do anything...it did nothing. The second, remove recent documents (along that lines) doesnt exist. Didnt think much of it since have it not configured shouldnt have an effect.
I then checked the registry entries relating to the group policies (\HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer), the DWORD value NoRecentDocsMenu did not exist. the BINARY value NoRecentDocsMenu existed. I tried removing it, no avail. I tried adding the DWORD with value 0, no avail. I tried restarting after each different thing, no avail.
I did a google search for the binary, and it is a means for removing the recent docs from the start menu, by making the hex a value of 00 00 00 01...but in my registry it was set to 00 00 00 00, meaning it should be on the start menu.
Im out of ideas...can anyone provide some ideas?
Thanks