{"id":62,"date":"2010-07-31T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doug.info\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2010-07-31T14:30:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T19:30:24","slug":"all-programs-missing-from-windows-7-start-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doug.info\/blog\/2010\/07\/31\/all-programs-missing-from-windows-7-start-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;All Programs&#8221; missing from Windows 7 Start Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doug.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/start_menu.gif\" rel=\"lightbox[62]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-63\" title=\"start_menu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doug.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/start_menu-245x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.doug.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/start_menu-245x300.gif 245w, http:\/\/www.doug.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/start_menu.gif 411w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, I came back from lunch, and noticed my &#8220;All Programs&#8221; was missing from my start menu. If you haven&#8217;t played with the new Windows\u00a0 7, you might not know how the new start menu works. When you click on your start button, a menu pops up, that looks like a previous version of Windows start menu, but it has some &#8220;improvements&#8221; on it. You can now hover or click on &#8220;All Programs&#8221; allowing it to display the list of programs on your computer. This works nice and dandy, but if the &#8220;All Programs&#8221; option is removed, there is no way of accessing the programs in your start menu. You have to manually go to each one in Windows Explorer to run them.<\/p>\n<p>If you have the problem where your &#8220;All Programs&#8221; option is missing, you can fix it by following the steps below.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Right click on the Start Button<\/li>\n<li>Click Properties<\/li>\n<li>In the Task Bar and Start Menu Properties window click \u201cCustomize\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Click on the \u201cUse Default Settings\u201d button<\/li>\n<li>Click &#8220;OK&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Click &#8220;Apply&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Your Start Menu should now be back to normal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I have also been told this will fix the problem with the Start Menu, and All Programs menu, if the icons disappear next to each program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I came back from lunch, and noticed my &#8220;All Programs&#8221; was missing from my start menu. If you haven&#8217;t played with the new Windows\u00a0 7, you might not know how the new start menu works. When you click on your start button, a menu pops up, that looks like a previous version of Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[37,36,30,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doug.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doug.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doug.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doug.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doug.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.doug.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"http:\/\/www.doug.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doug.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doug.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doug.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}