Start Menu Malfunction

Vista Ultimate
Running Office XP (I know it's old!!)
I'm using the new start menu.
For some reason the Shortcuts for Excel and Word that I have pinned
to the start menu quit working. If I choose the regular shortcut in the
start menu it works fine. Other items work as they should, it's just the
Office items.

And no, I'm not going to use Open Office ;-)
I have it on my Ubuntu test system.

Ideas??

TIA

Robert

Those shortcuts are Windows Installer shortcuts; they will have different
context menu capabilities than regular shortcuts (e.g., there's no Run as
Administrator or Open File Location), and their Properties will look
different (the Target field, Open File Location button, and Change Icon
button are all grayed out). This is normal. Your problem is propably due
to a 3rd party program shell extension that conflicts with those type of
shortcuts.

Have you installed any program recently that may have added a shell
extension to Windows Explorer? For example, a program that added an item to
the right-click context menu list when you right-click on a file or folder?

"Robert Martin" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Vista Ultimate
> Running Office XP (I know it's old!!)
> I'm using the new start menu.
> For some reason the Shortcuts for Excel and Word that I have pinned to the
> start menu quit working. If I choose the regular shortcut in the start
> menu it works fine. Other items work as they should, it's just the Office
> items.
>
> And no, I'm not going to use Open Office ;-)
> I have it on my Ubuntu test system.
>
> Ideas??
>
> TIA
>
> Robert
>
>
>

It's just the MS Office Items.
All others work fine.

Weird!


"dean-dean" <dean-> wrote in message
news:...
> Those shortcuts are Windows Installer shortcuts; they will have different
> context menu capabilities than regular shortcuts (e.g., there's no Run as
> Administrator or Open File Location), and their Properties will look
> different (the Target field, Open File Location button, and Change Icon
> button are all grayed out). This is normal. Your problem is propably due
> to a 3rd party program shell extension that conflicts with those type of
> shortcuts.
>
> Have you installed any program recently that may have added a shell
> extension to Windows Explorer? For example, a program that added an item
> to
> the right-click context menu list when you right-click on a file or
> folder?
>
> "Robert Martin" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Vista Ultimate
>> Running Office XP (I know it's old!!)
>> I'm using the new start menu.
>> For some reason the Shortcuts for Excel and Word that I have pinned to
>> the
>> start menu quit working. If I choose the regular shortcut in the start
>> menu it works fine. Other items work as they should, it's just the Office
>> items.
>>
>> And no, I'm not going to use Open Office ;-)
>> I have it on my Ubuntu test system.
>>
>> Ideas??
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
>>
>

Thanks for the help. Turned out for me that it was the BitZipper shell
extension that caused the problem so that Excel, Word, etc. wouldn't open
from the recently used Start Menu list.

"Robert Martin" wrote:

> It's just the MS Office Items.
> All others work fine.
>
> Weird!
>
>
> "dean-dean" <dean-> wrote in message
> news:...
> > Those shortcuts are Windows Installer shortcuts; they will have different
> > context menu capabilities than regular shortcuts (e.g., there's no Run as
> > Administrator or Open File Location), and their Properties will look
> > different (the Target field, Open File Location button, and Change Icon
> > button are all grayed out). This is normal. Your problem is propably due
> > to a 3rd party program shell extension that conflicts with those type of
> > shortcuts.
> >
> > Have you installed any program recently that may have added a shell
> > extension to Windows Explorer? For example, a program that added an item
> > to
> > the right-click context menu list when you right-click on a file or
> > folder?
> >
> > "Robert Martin" <> wrote in message
> > news:...
> >> Vista Ultimate
> >> Running Office XP (I know it's old!!)
> >> I'm using the new start menu.
> >> For some reason the Shortcuts for Excel and Word that I have pinned to
> >> the
> >> start menu quit working. If I choose the regular shortcut in the start
> >> menu it works fine. Other items work as they should, it's just the Office
> >> items.
> >>
> >> And no, I'm not going to use Open Office ;-)
> >> I have it on my Ubuntu test system.
> >>
> >> Ideas??
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
> >> Robert
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>