Start Menu

Juslisten · #1 (**permalink**) 05-05-2007, 02:30 PM

In my start menu I have the inbox shortcut and messaging shortcuts there. I tried to go to the menu under settings and remove it but everytime I clicked on the box to remove it it said that it can't be removed. Can this be removed? I ask because just playing around and looking at things under resco explorer I saw it under Windows/Start Menu. If I delete it here will it delete from the start menu so I can add something else?

**Big D5** · #2 (**permalink**) 05-05-2007, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Juslisten

In my start menu I have the inbox shortcut and messaging shortcuts there. I tried to go to the menu under settings and remove it but everytime I clicked on the box to remove it it said that it can't be removed. Can this be removed? I ask because just playing around and looking at things under resco explorer I saw it under Windows/Start Menu. If I delete it here will it delete from the start menu so I can add something else?

Yes this will work just delete the ones you don't want than go to settings and add the ones you want.

Juslisten · #3 (**permalink**) 05-05-2007, 05:11 PM

Appreciate it greatly. I am really figuring things out

Thanks to this site. I do have a question though why wouldn't it let me remove it from the menu setting? I also noticed that a couple programs I deleted were still present when I was in resco explorer but I don't see them when I am in file explorer because I deleted the program. Is this common?

**Big D5** · #4 (**permalink**) 05-05-2007, 05:48 PM

First Question: some short cuts are being used as a second step shortcut, basically this start menu icon is being used as a shortcut in some other part of the registry, so when you try to unchecked it in the menu there is a sharing violation, or this is an orphaned shortcut from some program that has been removed. Once you remove them from the start menu manually things will work fine.

Second Question: There are many treads addressing this, so look around and you will find more information on this one. Basically some shortcuts like the ones in the first question become orphaned when you remove a program, the program is gone but the shortcuts were active when the program was removed and couldn't be deleted. If you try to run the program from an orphaned shortcut it will not open, but if you try to run it and it dose open than the program was never really removed. You would have seen something like this program was not completely removed do you want to remove it from the list when you removed the program in settings, reload the program than remove it before you open it like after a soft reset. The best way to get rid of orphaned shortcuts is to use a memory cleaner like MemMaid which I highly recommend, but there are others like SK tools that will work as well.