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Start Menu - Add or Remove Help and Support How to Add or Remove Help from the Normal and Classic Vista Start Menu Published by Brink 05-08-2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 | Re: Start Menu - Add or Remove Help and Support Hi, Shawn. I'm having some trouble; I did all of these and I still have no Help and Support button. When browsing to Help and Support and clicking on it, instead of getting the Help box, I get a search box! I thought I may have replaced Help & Support with Search in a previous time, but I did the registry fix to restore it and logged off and back on and Search was still there. Just to see what would happen, I also tried enabling the "Hide Search from Start Menu" from gpedit.msc, but even that left me with Search there! Freaky, eh? I think that I did replace Help and Support with Search sometime ago, but I definitely cannot undo it now. Any ideas? So far, I've downloaded, ran, and log-off/log-on cycled both "Restore_Help.reg" from the Search replacement thread and now this "Add_Start_Menu_Help.reg" from this thread: both did nothing, as far as I can see. Opening Help and Support via browsing to icon still opens a search box. What I would like in the end would to have all three buttons on my Start Menu: Run, Help & Support, and Search. Thanks in advance! ![]() ~Ibrahim~ Last edited by ikjadoon; 10-12-2008 at 10:50 PM.. |
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Start Menu - Add or Remove Help and Support Hello Ibrahim, Without knowing for sure if you did change Help and Support or not to Search and how long a go for a System Restore, it may be best to do a Repair (upgrade) install. If you had changed it to Search, it would normally replace the Help and Support name with Search as well, and not just the function. Hope this helps, Shawn |
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| Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 | Re: Start Menu - Add or Remove Help and Support All right. And I just want to make sure, this will only affect crucial Vista files, right? Like, will it mess with Vista Media Center channel profiles or what-not? Will it move my already-moved pagefile? Or will this make me a new Vista, just with all my programs installed? Will I lose my background desktop videos (Dreamscene?) I suppose there isn't an easier way? Say to manually find the changes that the "Replace Help & Support with Search".reg file does in the Registry myself and see if there are in there? Thanks! ~Ibrahim~ |
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Start Menu - Add or Remove Help and Support Hi Ibrahim, It will leave your installed programs installed but it will reset everything else back to the default settings. I would backup anything that you do not want to lose to be safe in case something goes wrong during installation. It will not do any good to manually search the registry for the changes made the Restore_Help.reg file changes everthing it did back to the default settings. If it did not for you, then most likely this is not what you have done to change the Help button. |
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| Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 | Re: Start Menu - Add or Remove Help and Support OK. But, I must've done something, right? Any regular, un-tweaked Vista SP1 OS should NOT have a search button, right? It should just have Run and Help & Support? And you don't have any idea why a search box would come up instead of Help & Support, right? ~Ibrahim~ |
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Start Menu - Add or Remove Help and Support Correct. What gets me wondering is that if the button has Help & Support as the name still instead of Search, then it cannot have been from the "Replace Help & Support with Search".reg file. It changes the name to Search. Especially since you you have already tried the Restore_Help.reg file with no success. Something else has been changed somewhere, but it's a needle in a haystack to find. Especially not knowing for sure of the source of the change and how long ago. I can only recommend a Repair (upgrade) install. |
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| Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 | Re: Start Menu - Add or Remove Help and Support Aha! I found it; I was browsing some Google hits and I came upon this one. I've never been to this site before, but this particular "undo".reg fixed it for me. I have Help & Support back! Thank you! ~Ibrahim~ |
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Start Menu - Add or Remove Help and Support Ibrahim, I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out. Thank you for posting back your results. Could you post that reg file here for me to look at to see what may have been different causing this for you? For some reason I cannot load that webpage. Thank you, Shawn |
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| Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 | Re: Start Menu - Add or Remove Help and Support Sure, no problem. File is attached to post. ~Ibrahim~ |
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