Re: Start Menu MRU changes not saving

Thanks for the reply, Kelly. Let's see now...

Kelly wrote:
> Hi Craig,
>
> The behavior you are describing is for first time booters (Start
> Menu). However, what is different and preset within laptops is the
> equivalent to X-Mouse. Check those settings.

Make sense about the first time booters - and it even mentioned it in the
darn Tour, now that I've bothered to go through bits of it. <g>. I know
there is an X-Mouse PowerToy that emulates X-Windows behaviour of bringing
focus to windows as the mouse passes over them, but I don't have that
installed. Nor do I see any equivalent option in the touchpad settings... so
I'm not sure where to check.

> Question: Why would you remove OE and IE from the top part of the
> Start Menu, yet try to pin them?

Actually, I'm trying to pin something else to the top of the Start Menu,
Word and Excel, and I don't need the normal Internet and Email options there
on this laptop.

> Comment, get rid of Tour Windows, that can be the cause of the Start
> Menu pop-up.

How? I can't find any official way to do so, not even amongst the 'Windows
Components'. Do I just go somewhere and start deleting?

> Note: Never run XP under the System Admin account, that is a reserve
> for emergencies. Create another user with Admin privileges and take
> it from there.

Thanks. Didn't realise I was doing that. So, now more oddness - I create a
new account and my only choice is one with Admin privs as it is the first
account I've specifically added. Fine. However, when I boot the laptop it
automatically goes into the 'real' administrator logon without asking me
which one to login as. If I then 'Logout', my only choice to log back in is
the *new* Admin account! A two step process to get there. Oh, and it (the
new account) exhibits the same pop-up-and-reset-the-start-menu behaviour as
the real Administrator does. Doh!

> How to:
>
> How to Copy or Remove a User Profile
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_logon.htm#usercopy
>
> HOW TO: Create a Custom Default User Profile:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q305709

Not quite sure what to do with all this information... perhaps a little more
guidance? Thanks again.

-craig

> "Craig Hulett" <First.Last@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OIjKXvNOFHA.3296@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> I've got a very strange problem with a laptop running XP Pro with
>> SP2. First
>> thing that bugs me is the 'Start' menu is *always* popped up when I
>> boot it
>> up, just as if I've already clicked on the 'Start' button. That I've
>> been living with, but the problem that brings me here is my
>> inability to have any
>> customizations to the 'MRU' (left hand) side of the menu survive a
>> shutdown.
>>
>> I can uncheck the standard 'Show on Start menu' Internet and E-mail
>> options,
>> I can then 'pin' to the start menu newly run programs and see all of
>> the 'normal' behaviour I expect from the menu - while I'm logged on.
>> My MRU list gets updated and all is fine until I shutdown and
>> restart, at which point - when the darn menu pops up again - my LHS
>> of the menu is back to some sort of default config:
>>
>> Pinned: Internet Explorer and Outlook Express
>> MRU: Windows Media Player, Tour Windows XP, Windows Movie Maker,
>> File and Settings Transfer Wizard
>>
>> Every time I turn it on, this is where I start from. Can anyone
>> tell me what in the heck is going on? A couple of more points - I am
>> logging on as the Administrator and this isn't a new behaviour
>> that's just started, the laptop has always exhibited this behaviour.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -craig


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