Re: Start Menu MRU changes not saving

Hi,

>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.


Either right click Word/Excel, Send To/Create desktop shorcut (then drag) or
simply drag the one under all programs and drop it where IE and OE would
have been.

To remove the Tour: Line 303 (right hand side):
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

>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!

That is because when you added your new account and didn't select/use the
drop box to set the auto logon and it is being set to the System Admin
account.

1. Go to Start/Run and type in: control userpasswords2 and press ok.

2. On the Users tab, left click your user name then clear the Users Must
Enter A User Name And Password To Use This Computer check box and then click
OK.

3. In the Automatically Log On dialog box that appears, type the "user name
and password" for the account you want to be logged on each time you start
your computer.

Added note: (Alex MVP)

If you want to logon to one of the other users, hold down shift as the
system boots up.


As for the pop-ups/tour via the new Account, it is doing as it should by
default for a new user. :o)


All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com


"Craig Hulett" <First.Last@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23gpnicROFHA.2348@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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