Start Menu All Programs in Windows 7 - Restore Default Shortcuts

Shawn,

it should be noted that if the "Common Programs" property under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

is set to anything but the default value then your instructions will not work. Thank you!

Shawn,

I was messing around with the folders that hold the shortcuts yesterday, and if you move the wrong folder it will automatically change this key to where you moved the folder.

Shawn,

I am not sure how it happened, but the end result was that it changed that registry key without my knowledge. Then it appeared the only way to fix it was to go into the registry and change it back. I wanted others to be aware that in some cases simply restoring the folders will not work.

Thanks this has saved me a lot of time. The computer I am working on had a load of its short cuts renamed by something or other. It was heavily infected with malware / spyware.

I signed up to say that you don't need to unblock each shortcut individually. If you unblock the zip file before unzipping it, the fact that it has been unblocked is transferred to all of the files in the archive.

I hope this is of use.

Thanks again.