Hello all, I have reinstalled Vista Home Premium, and downloaded all patches 
for it etc. What I notice now is that all the Windows items have gone from 
the start menu, DVD maker, movie maker, media player etc. How can I recover 
the shortcut to launch DVD maker and movie maker? I found the shortcut for 
media centre already, thanks. Do I need to do a repair install?

Hi,

Click start and start typing in any of those program names and they will 
appear in the menu.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Carl" <me@theworld.universe> wrote in message 
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> Hello all, I have reinstalled Vista Home Premium, and downloaded all 
> patches for it etc. What I notice now is that all the Windows items have 
> gone from the start menu, DVD maker, movie maker, media player etc. How 
> can I recover the shortcut to launch DVD maker and movie maker? I found 
> the shortcut for media centre already, thanks. Do I need to do a repair 
> install?

I have tried that, to no avail. Before I started downloading the windows 
updates, in my start menu on a fresh install, I could see DVD maker, movie 
maker, media centre, media player. After downloading all available updates, 
they are no longer available. I was able to find media centre shortcut, and 
media player. I would like help in discovering whereabouts the launchers for 
DVD maker and movie maker reside on my C drive, if anyone can point me in 
the right direction that'd be great!

When you click on the "start orb", the programs below the line are the 
programs that you have used last. This list is limited to the last 9 
programs by default. Therefore, if you don't use the default programs much 
they will roll off the bottom of the list.

If you delete the programs that "are" showing, your missing programs will 
move up the list and will again likely be seen.

-- 

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience



"Carl" <me@theworld.universe> wrote in message 
news:B0A7E620-4D63-4665-98B4-E04841954B2D@microsoft.com...
> Hello all, I have reinstalled Vista Home Premium, and downloaded all 
> patches for it etc. What I notice now is that all the Windows items have 
> gone from the start menu, DVD maker, movie maker, media player etc. How 
> can I recover the shortcut to launch DVD maker and movie maker? I found 
> the shortcut for media centre already, thanks. Do I need to do a repair 
> install?

I can launch movie maker through the run command, but I'd like to know how I 
get my start menu items back!

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:56:40 +0100, "Carl" <me@theworld.universe>
wrote:

>I can launch movie maker through the run command, but I'd like to know how I 
>get my start menu items back!


From a reply on the same subject just a couple of days ago:

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Restore the default Start menu shortcuts:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/255/1/Restore-the-default-Start...

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP  [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog
Windows® Troubleshooting:  http://www.winhelponline.com

Could you let me know what the earlier thread was titled? I searched the 
forum before posting with everything I could think of.. Worked a treat, 
thanks!

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:30:18 +0100, "Carl" <me@theworld.universe>
wrote:

>Could you let me know what the earlier thread was titled? I searched the 
>forum before posting with everything I could think of.. Worked a treat, 
>thanks!

I knew it would work, because I tried it on my system :-)

Don't remember where I found that post.  I've been staring at this
monitor far too long and it's time for me to crash, so I won't be able
to look it up again.

a thought - have you considered making new shortcuts (from the right-click
on the programs' .exe file) and placing them in the Start menu (where you
want them, right?)

a reader


"Carl" <me@theworld.universe> wrote in message 
news:45A3A4C9-4AB6-458A-B0CB-A7F45B95F635@microsoft.com...
>I have tried that, to no avail. Before I started downloading the windows 
>updates, in my start menu on a fresh install, I could see DVD maker, movie 
>maker, media centre, media player. After downloading all available updates, 
>they are no longer available. I was able to find media centre shortcut, and 
>media player. I would like help in discovering whereabouts the launchers 
>for DVD maker and movie maker reside on my C drive, if anyone can point me 
>in the right direction that'd be great!