Vista - Vista Start menu problem

I'm in trouble with this Vista Start menu, all my recent programs
disappears and I can't reconfig that, it's inacessible, someone know how
to fix that?

Thanks a lot!

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Ivan Carlos - Chief Information & Security Officer
E-mail / Skype / WLM: icarlos@xxxxxx
Cell.: +55 (11) 8112-0666

"Doomer" <icarlos@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uaSeu8XdIHA.1208@xxxxxxHave you got Admin rights to the machine? If you have
Business/Enterprise/Ultimate, I'm pretty sure that there is a setting to
disable that using Group Policy, but if someone has done that, you are
unlikely to have Admin rights.

Try running gpedit.msc and see.

ss.

My vista is Ultimate, I have admin rights.

I already tried to find changes in my GP, but do not exist any GP
setting for my pc or user, and the last modification happened in months
(this problem appeared yesterday)

I look out in local policies too (gpedit.msc), not found =(

Thanks for you attention

Ivan Carlos - Chief Information & Security Officer
E-mail / Skype / WLM: icarlos@xxxxxx
Cell.: +55 (11) 8112-0666

Synapse Syndrome wrote:

Doomer open the taskbar and start menu properties window and then click on
the 'Start Menu' tab. In the 'privacy' section is there a 'tick' mark next
to the option 'store and display a list of recently opened programs'? If the
tick is missing, then this is he reason for your problem. Just click on the
box to replace the 'tick' and everything should be as I was.

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"Doomer" <icarlos@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ivan

Open Gpedit.msc and you will find the optional settings under
User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Start Menu and Taskbar.

Specifically, you want to check these 2 policies to make sure they are
either 'Not configured' or 'Disabled'.

'Remove recent items menu from start menu'
'Do not keep history of recently opened documents'

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"Doomer" <icarlos@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ronnie, my start menu is set to 'not' display recent programs. Because of
this, if I were to do a screenshot, the screenshot would look very similar
to Ivan's, including the start menu size being grayed out. By simply
enabling the 'store and display recently opened programs' makes the recent
opened programs menu active and also enables the start menu size.

Editing Group Policy is a long winded way of, basically, doing the same
thing. Okay some things you cannot do so easily without editing group
policy, but simple things such as disabling/enabling recent programs and
putting the run option on the start menu are, I feel, better accessed from
the start menu properties than group policy.

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"Ronnie Vernon MVP" <rv@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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John

The only reason I mentioned the GPEdit settings was because the OP mentioned
that he didn't see any settings in there that might cause this behavior.

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


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