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Search for e.g. Gateway Mybackup.lnk
Everything serach engine is useful for that kind of thing http://www.voidtools.com/download.php
SIW2,
That was a good idea. But still no joy. It found the lnk in All Programs of start menu, but not the one on initial menu. Not found in registry either.
I was eager to see how Gateway did this, but I guess we all need to move on at this point.
Bill.
Interesting, I reimaged with the factory image and now the items do ascend in the list as they are used more frequently. Originally they stayed in fixed places, until I moved one up to the user pinned area.
Deleted 3 programscache entries in startpage2 and refreshed explorer. When explorer came back the same start page entries were still there. I compared startpage2 entries with my backup. The first part looks the same - but it is a big entry.
So somehow it is being rebuilt?
Bill.
I am not sure, but this might be related.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{CEBFF5CD-BLAA-BLAA-BLA-SOMETHING}\Count
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{F4E57C4B-BLAA-BLAA-BLA-SOMETHING}\Count
I have deleted those Count sub keys and that part of Start menu turned empty.
I started by deleting the keys in just
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{F4E57C4B-BLAA-BLAA-BLA-SOMETHING}\Count
and then refreshing explorer. Start page entries were gone. The Count keys also stayed gone.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{CEBFF5CD-BLAA-BLAA-BLA-SOMETHING}\Count
entries in this key remained.
Opened notepad and it was added to the start page. Three entries were added to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{F4E57C4B-BLAA-BLAA-BLA-SOMETHING}\Count
So yes, that seems to be the connection.
Bill.