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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

An empty All Programs Folders in Windows 7 and how to fixed it!

If you have experienced this:

All the programs, shortcuts & folders in the All Users and current user Start Menu/Programs folders were there
The Shell Folders and User Shell Folders in the registry (both current user and local machine) were pointing to the right folders
Permissions on said folders were all set as expected
Able to reproduce on BOTH a Clean Windows 7 RC install and upgrade (but itÕs much more likely to been seen in a upgrade).
To reproduce on a clean install, open either All Users or current userÕs Start Menu and create a ton of shortcuts. I took the IE shortcut, copied and pasted it until I had 80+ copies. At that point, even the lean installÕs All Programs broke. After deleting those copies (and end-tasking and running Explorer) the CleanÕs All Programs came back.

Possible solution

1. Click on the Start Menu.

2. Right Click on ÒAll ProgramsÓ.

3. Select ÒOpen All usersÓ

4. Open the Programs Folder.

5. Create a new folder named ÒAÓ.

6. Drag all the other folders into the A folder.

7. Close Windows Explorer.

YouÕre done. When you click on ÒAll ProgramsÓ youÕll see a limited number of Program Items. If you click on the A folder, you see all of your Programs. NOTE: In this folder the folders follow single shortcut items.

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