Dissappearing quick start icons

hi, win7, 64-bit. I'm reinstalling win7. The "quick start icons" behavior differently. My quick start icons are FireFox,IE, hp, and Explorer. When I click on FF or IE, the browser replaces that icon and pushes everything to the right. I don't remember that happening before in my last setup....

Friday night I had quick launch icons. Saturday morning I didn't. I also can't open the START menu and select "pin to start menu" on anything anymore. There are arrows next to certain programs as well (such as Word) that USED TO show recent documents but those don't even open anymore. All that...

Windows 7 uses a taskbar that is a bit thicker than XP and Vista's default. As a result, we get this: http://i.imgur.com/7pMEx.png Anyone have any idea on how to centre the quick launch icons so they match the taskbar icons? So things look normal?

Some Office 2010 icons are missing in quick launch and start menu and only generics show. The correct icon is displayed in the properties sheet but are not displayed correctly on the menu and taskbar. I did follow the thread to leave Office 2007 on the machine and separated the files in the...

I've been trying to get a "computer" shortcut icon to appear in the quick launch menu... ... no dice... any idea how? I'm not talking about pinning it to the taskbar... I only want it in the quick launch menu.