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04-14-2008
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| | Not all program will run from Start Menu Not all programs listed in the pinned area and recently run area of the Start Menu will run when you click on them. This is true particularly of MS Office programs. Some programs will run when clicked on, but not others. With those that won't run, you have to go to "All Programs" and select them from there. This is very annoying, because you never know which programs will run. In Windows XP, you never had this problem. I was hoping that SP-1 would fix this, but it didn't. Do others have this problem? Can it be fixed? |
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04-14-2008
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| | RE: Not all program will run from Start Menu I have not had this issue. My suggestion if they work from the regular location in the start menu remove the pinned ones from teh start menu and re-pin them to the start menu. "harmonp" wrote: Quote: > Not all programs listed in the pinned area and recently run area of the Start > Menu will run when you click on them. This is true particularly of MS Office > programs. Some programs will run when clicked on, but not others. With > those that won't run, you have to go to "All Programs" and select them from > there. This is very annoying, because you never know which programs will > run. In Windows XP, you never had this problem. I was hoping that SP-1 > would fix this, but it didn't. > > Do others have this problem? Can it be fixed? |
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04-14-2008
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| | Re: Not all program will run from Start Menu I've not experienced this, nor even heard of it. I'd remove the ones that don't start, and pin them back from the All Programs list. -- Vista Home Premium 32 SP1 http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview "harmonp" <harmonp@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:6E67E87B-B883-424C-A726-EDD7DE16A13A@xxxxxx Quote: > Not all programs listed in the pinned area and recently run area of the > Start > Menu will run when you click on them. This is true particularly of MS > Office > programs. Some programs will run when clicked on, but not others. With > those that won't run, you have to go to "All Programs" and select them > from > there. This is very annoying, because you never know which programs will > run. In Windows XP, you never had this problem. I was hoping that SP-1 > would fix this, but it didn't. > > Do others have this problem? Can it be fixed? |
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04-14-2008
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| | Re: Not all program will run from Start Menu I've experienced this problem immediately after installing iTunes. I rebooted and it went away. -- ------------------------------ Donny Broome www.broomeman.com/vista "harmonp" <harmonp@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:6E67E87B-B883-424C-A726-EDD7DE16A13A@xxxxxx Quote: > Not all programs listed in the pinned area and recently run area of the > Start > Menu will run when you click on them. This is true particularly of MS > Office > programs. Some programs will run when clicked on, but not others. With > those that won't run, you have to go to "All Programs" and select them > from > there. This is very annoying, because you never know which programs will > run. In Windows XP, you never had this problem. I was hoping that SP-1 > would fix this, but it didn't. > > Do others have this problem? Can it be fixed? |
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05-04-2008
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| | RE: Not all program will run from Start Menu I have the same problem with MS Office programs. Re-pinning doesn't help. I have Office 2007 and 2003 installed, maybe that's a problem but I would have thought the "pinned" program was just type of shotcut. "harmonp" wrote: Quote: > Not all programs listed in the pinned area and recently run area of the Start > Menu will run when you click on them. This is true particularly of MS Office > programs. Some programs will run when clicked on, but not others. With > those that won't run, you have to go to "All Programs" and select them from > there. This is very annoying, because you never know which programs will > run. In Windows XP, you never had this problem. I was hoping that SP-1 > would fix this, but it didn't. > > Do others have this problem? Can it be fixed? |
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