Thank you. However, it's not the recent documents that are missing...it's
all the applications that were listed that are missing. Any thoughts on
that? Thanks again!

"JS" wrote:

> Removing the Recent Documents link from XP Start Menu
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/recentdocs.htm
>
> Follow the instruction except where it says:
> "Under Recent documents, uncheck List my most recently opened documents"
>
> Change it to read "Check List my most recently opened documents"
>
> JS
>
> "Amy" <Amy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:47A4E3B2-69F7-4AB4-AB02-915755F7C5E7@microsoft.com...
> > When I click on Start, the part of the Start menu *directly* above the
> > Start
> > button is completely empty. To the right of that, there is the usual My
> > Documents, My Computer, Control Panel, etc. However, the left side is
> > 100%
> > blank. Any idea how to get the items to show back up again, please? I've
> > explored my Start Menu and made sure the shortcuts are there for the
> > items,
> > which they are...they're just not showing up. Any help is greatly
> > appreciated! Thank you in advance! - Amy
>
>
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