lost Start/Programs/

[hbwr]

I had an application freeze tonight. I ended up doing a restart. After that, I had lost the list of icons on my Start/Programs menu.

I reinstalled W98 from the folder I have it in on my HD, no help. I can manually add the stuff back, but why did I lose it? Is/was there anyway to restore it?

Rik [sig]<p>Rik Rasmussen<br><a href=mailto:hrasmussen@nc.rr.com>hrasmussen@nc.rr.com</a><br><a href=

http://home.nc.rr.com/rikrasmussen/>Rik

Rasmussen</a><br>Communications Maintenance Adminstrator<br>
City of Durham, NC[/sig]

 

[MiggyD]

Do you have users and passwords on your system? If so, the desktop could be looking in another profile directory instead of your normal one. [sig]<p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>English is too hard to learn, the vowles change too much like come/home, comb/tomb, book/school, high/bye/sty, etc., etc. So should I say Geez or Sheez or Cheeze? hehe.[/sig]

 

[hbwr]

The standard Windows Icons did not disappear. The ones I lost are the ones that get added under /Programs, when you install applications.

I do not have multiple profiles on the computer.

When I look in the Start menu using the Explorer, I can see that all the icon groups have disappeared.

I suppose backing up might have saved them. But I have never had much luck restoring Windows from a back up. So, I just back up important documents and reinstall the apps if I have a crash.

Rik [sig]<p>Rik Rasmussen<br><a href=mailto:hrasmussen@nc.rr.com>hrasmussen@nc.rr.com</a><br><a href=

http://home.nc.rr.com/rikrasmussen/>Rik

Rasmussen</a><br>Communications Maintenance Adminstrator<br>
City of Durham, NC[/sig]