Start Button not showing recently used programs

When I press start button , i never show any programs in list. I have gone
ito properties and checked all settings. What am I missing?

Right-click the Start button and select Properties. In the Start Menu tab,
click Customize. On the General tab

Make sure that under Programs the "Number of programs on Start menu" is not
set to 0.
Also try clearing the list in the registry once, by pressing Clear List
button.

If that does not work. Go to your registry and navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer

Disable the two policies namely NoInstrumentation and
NoStartMenuMFUprogramsList if present.
Edit Menu > Modify > On Edit DWORD Value box enter 0 on Value data: box. A
value of 1 is enabled, and a value of 0 is disabled.
You may need to restart.

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Rey


"rghyder" wrote:

> When I press start button , i never show any programs in list. I have gone
> ito properties and checked all settings. What am I missing?

Start Menu Most Frequently Used programs (MFU) list is empty:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/startmfu.htm

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog
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"rghyder" <rghyder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When I press start button , i never show any programs in list. I have gone
> ito properties and checked all settings. What am I missing?