Favorites invisible in IE7

I have just started using a new PC with Vista on it. It is running
IE7.0.6001.18000. Everything works so far, except for the "Favorites"
pull-down menu. When I click on it, I can see the right and bottom edges of a
transparent box open up below it. But there is nothing visible in the box.
And if I move my mouse down into the box and click, it is clear that there
are favorites there, since they do open things (either sub-boxes or web
pages), but since I cannot see any text at all in the box, I have no idea
what is going to open, and I have no way to save new favorites in a way that
I can see them.

All of the other pull-down menus (File, Edit, View, Tools, and Help) work
normally. This problem only exists with the Favorites menu.

What do I do to fix this?

Do you have the same problem using the 'star' option?

"devistated" <> wrote in message
news:8C1A2D91-28AD-4B32-95EA-...
>I have just started using a new PC with Vista on it. It is running
> IE7.0.6001.18000. Everything works so far, except for the "Favorites"
> pull-down menu. When I click on it, I can see the right and bottom edges
> of a
> transparent box open up below it. But there is nothing visible in the box.
> And if I move my mouse down into the box and click, it is clear that there
> are favorites there, since they do open things (either sub-boxes or web
> pages), but since I cannot see any text at all in the box, I have no idea
> what is going to open, and I have no way to save new favorites in a way
> that
> I can see them.
>
> All of the other pull-down menus (File, Edit, View, Tools, and Help) work
> normally. This problem only exists with the Favorites menu.
>
> What do I do to fix this?

I had no idea what you meant by the "star" option, but when I looked I found
the star and the double star. These options do work. So there is a
workaround, but the problem with the pull-down menu persists.

"John Barnes" wrote:

> Do you have the same problem using the 'star' option?
>
> "devistated" <> wrote in message
> news:8C1A2D91-28AD-4B32-95EA-...
> >I have just started using a new PC with Vista on it. It is running
> > IE7.0.6001.18000. Everything works so far, except for the "Favorites"
> > pull-down menu. When I click on it, I can see the right and bottom edges
> > of a
> > transparent box open up below it. But there is nothing visible in the box.
> > And if I move my mouse down into the box and click, it is clear that there
> > are favorites there, since they do open things (either sub-boxes or web
> > pages), but since I cannot see any text at all in the box, I have no idea
> > what is going to open, and I have no way to save new favorites in a way
> > that
> > I can see them.
> >
> > All of the other pull-down menus (File, Edit, View, Tools, and Help) work
> > normally. This problem only exists with the Favorites menu.
> >
> > What do I do to fix this?
>
>

Try moving all your favourites out into another folder. Users / your id /
favorites. Then add add something to your empty favorites normally. If you
have no problems you have an item in your old favorites folder that is
causing the problem.

"devistated" <> wrote in message
news:F054EB19-464A-4D46-95D4-...
>I had no idea what you meant by the "star" option, but when I looked I
>found
> the star and the double star. These options do work. So there is a
> workaround, but the problem with the pull-down menu persists.
>
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>
>> Do you have the same problem using the 'star' option?
>>
>> "devistated" <> wrote in message
>> news:8C1A2D91-28AD-4B32-95EA-...
>> >I have just started using a new PC with Vista on it. It is running
>> > IE7.0.6001.18000. Everything works so far, except for the "Favorites"
>> > pull-down menu. When I click on it, I can see the right and bottom
>> > edges
>> > of a
>> > transparent box open up below it. But there is nothing visible in the
>> > box.
>> > And if I move my mouse down into the box and click, it is clear that
>> > there
>> > are favorites there, since they do open things (either sub-boxes or web
>> > pages), but since I cannot see any text at all in the box, I have no
>> > idea
>> > what is going to open, and I have no way to save new favorites in a way
>> > that
>> > I can see them.
>> >
>> > All of the other pull-down menus (File, Edit, View, Tools, and Help)
>> > work
>> > normally. This problem only exists with the Favorites menu.
>> >
>> > What do I do to fix this?
>>
>>

I moved everything out of the favorites folder (all that was there was what
Dell put there before I received the PC). But the Favorites pull-down menu
still has the same problem: it is invisible, except for the right and left
shadows.

"John Barnes" wrote:

> Try moving all your favourites out into another folder. Users / your id /
> favorites. Then add add something to your empty favorites normally. If you
> have no problems you have an item in your old favorites folder that is
> causing the problem.
>
> "devistated" <> wrote in message
> news:F054EB19-464A-4D46-95D4-...
> >I had no idea what you meant by the "star" option, but when I looked I
> >found
> > the star and the double star. These options do work. So there is a
> > workaround, but the problem with the pull-down menu persists.
> >
> > "John Barnes" wrote:
> >
> >> Do you have the same problem using the 'star' option?
> >>
> >> "devistated" <> wrote in message
> >> news:8C1A2D91-28AD-4B32-95EA-...
> >> >I have just started using a new PC with Vista on it. It is running
> >> > IE7.0.6001.18000. Everything works so far, except for the "Favorites"
> >> > pull-down menu. When I click on it, I can see the right and bottom
> >> > edges
> >> > of a
> >> > transparent box open up below it. But there is nothing visible in the
> >> > box.
> >> > And if I move my mouse down into the box and click, it is clear that
> >> > there
> >> > are favorites there, since they do open things (either sub-boxes or web
> >> > pages), but since I cannot see any text at all in the box, I have no
> >> > idea
> >> > what is going to open, and I have no way to save new favorites in a way
> >> > that
> >> > I can see them.
> >> >
> >> > All of the other pull-down menus (File, Edit, View, Tools, and Help)
> >> > work
> >> > normally. This problem only exists with the Favorites menu.
> >> >
> >> > What do I do to fix this?
> >>
> >>
>
>