Start menu trouble i Vista

Hi...

Many of the shortcuts fastened to my Vista start up menu do not start their
designated programs.
When I right click and choose "Properties" there is nothing in the field
where the start folder is to be.
Even if I paste in the right path it do not work.
The only way to start f.ex Microsoft Excel is to click my way down the
dungeons of the start menu to the Microsoft Office folder to find the
original shortcut.

A lot of work, if you ask me...

What can be wrong?
I run Windows Vista Ultimate with all updates on a self built up to date
stationery computer.

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Regards
Zadig Galbaras
(nick)
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Zadig

Describe what is many. Depending which ones and how many have you thought about making a new shorcuts for them.

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Peter

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"Zadig Galbaras" <tresfjording@gmail.no> wrote in message news:%23G1%23yJl4HHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi...
>
> Many of the shortcuts fastened to my Vista start up menu do not start their
> designated programs.
> When I right click and choose "Properties" there is nothing in the field
> where the start folder is to be.
> Even if I paste in the right path it do not work.
> The only way to start f.ex Microsoft Excel is to click my way down the
> dungeons of the start menu to the Microsoft Office folder to find the
> original shortcut.
>
> A lot of work, if you ask me...
>
> What can be wrong?
> I run Windows Vista Ultimate with all updates on a self built up to date
> stationery computer.
>
> --
>
> Regards
> Zadig Galbaras
> (nick)
> -----
>
>
>

Many is all of the shortcuts to any MS Office application in the "recently
used area" and the "add to start"-menu area plus the link to Safari the web
browser...

Yes I have removed and readded the shortcuts in question, in vain...

I have also right-clicked the very same shortcuts, and chosen to restore
them to an earlier working version, still in vain...

Is there a registry tweak I can do, perhaps...?....hmm...
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Regards
Zadig Galbaras
(nick)
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"Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> skrev i melding
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Zadig

Describe what is many. Depending which ones and how many have you thought
about making a new shorcuts for them.

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Peter

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"Zadig Galbaras" <tresfjording@gmail.no> wrote in message
news:%23G1%23yJl4HHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi...
>
> Many of the shortcuts fastened to my Vista start up menu do not start
> their
> designated programs.
> When I right click and choose "Properties" there is nothing in the field
> where the start folder is to be.
> Even if I paste in the right path it do not work.
> The only way to start f.ex Microsoft Excel is to click my way down the
> dungeons of the start menu to the Microsoft Office folder to find the
> original shortcut.
>
> A lot of work, if you ask me...
>
> What can be wrong?
> I run Windows Vista Ultimate with all updates on a self built up to date
> stationery computer.
>
> --
>
> Regards
> Zadig Galbaras
> (nick)
> -----
>
>
>

Found a discription of the problem on the net.
Haven't have had the time to test it yet...
http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/ind...showtopic=14341
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Regards
Zadig Galbaras
(nick)
-----



"Zadig Galbaras" <tresfjording@gmail.no> skrev i melding
news:%23G1%23yJl4HHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi...
>
> Many of the shortcuts fastened to my Vista start up menu do not start
> their
> designated programs.
> When I right click and choose "Properties" there is nothing in the field
> where the start folder is to be.
> Even if I paste in the right path it do not work.
> The only way to start f.ex Microsoft Excel is to click my way down the
> dungeons of the start menu to the Microsoft Office folder to find the
> original shortcut.
>
> A lot of work, if you ask me...
>
> What can be wrong?
> I run Windows Vista Ultimate with all updates on a self built up to date
> stationery computer.
>
> --
>
> Regards
> Zadig Galbaras
> (nick)
> -----
>
>
>

Here is the perpetrator :
http://www.lopesoft.com/en/fmtools/info.html

After uninstalling this context menu software, and a reboot, my start menu
shortcuts are back in action.

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Regards
Zadig Galbaras
(nick)
-----



"Zadig Galbaras" <tresfjording@gmail.no> skrev i melding
news:%23G1%23yJl4HHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi...
>
> Many of the shortcuts fastened to my Vista start up menu do not start
> their
> designated programs.
> When I right click and choose "Properties" there is nothing in the field
> where the start folder is to be.
> Even if I paste in the right path it do not work.
> The only way to start f.ex Microsoft Excel is to click my way down the
> dungeons of the start menu to the Microsoft Office folder to find the
> original shortcut.
>
> A lot of work, if you ask me...
>
> What can be wrong?
> I run Windows Vista Ultimate with all updates on a self built up to date
> stationery computer.
>
> --
>
> Regards
> Zadig Galbaras
> (nick)
> -----
>
>
>