Vista Start Menu pop-out menus non-responsive

On Monday, I installed Windows Vista (Business) as a clean install. All was
fine.
Now that I've finished installing my software (Office 2007, Visual Studio
2005 - with the Vista service pack, SQL Server 2005 SP2, Symantec Antivirus
10.2 client) and had all the updates from Windows Update installed, all the
menus that pop-out to the right of the start menu (Favorites, Recent Items,
Administrative Tools, and the Shut Down/Restart, etc.. menu) don't work!
They appear normally, but nothing is selected as I hover over items and if I
click (either button) the menu just disappears.
I have tried enabling single-clicking and double-clicking. I have tried
switching to the 'Calssic Menu' (which works fine), but when I go back to the
Vista menu, it's a no-go.
Has anyone had/heard of something similar? Do you have a solution (other
than re-installing everything again!).

RJ Muller;486572 Wrote:
> On Monday, I installed Windows Vista (Business) as a clean install. All
> was
> fine.
> Now that I've finished installing my software (Office 2007, Visual
> Studio
> 2005 - with the Vista service pack, SQL Server 2005 SP2, Symantec
> Antivirus
> 10.2 client) and had all the updates from Windows Update installed, all
> the
> menus that pop-out to the right of the start menu (Favorites, Recent
> Items,
> Administrative Tools, and the Shut Down/Restart, etc.. menu) don't
> work!
> They appear normally, but nothing is selected as I hover over items and
> if I
> click (either button) the menu just disappears.
> I have tried enabling single-clicking and double-clicking. I have tried
> switching to the 'Calssic Menu' (which works fine), but when I go back
> to the
> Vista menu, it's a no-go.
> Has anyone had/heard of something similar? Do you have a solution
> (other
> than re-installing everything again!).

Hi RJ,

There is no solution for this yet, but there is a way to get it working
again easily. Luckily it does not happen often. You just need to
either restart the computer or restart explorer. This tutorial will
show you how to restart explorer. It will save you time from having to
go through a complete restart.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/78...-explorer.html

Shawn


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Thanks for the response and suggestion, brink!

I had tried restarting the machine several times (I'm used to that after
years of experience with previous versions of Windows ;-)). The problem
persisted; however, shortly after I resorted to posting my problem here,
explorer.exe crashed. Upon restart, Vista itself deirected me to KB941649. I
installed the update and the problem has gone away.

BTW.. as far as restarting the machine, which was a necessary and extremely
frequent activity with Win95, and 98, and NT4, I found Windows 2000
incredibly stable (running for months at a time without having to reboot). XP
was pretty good too, but not as stable - "The system has recovered from a
serious error" messages appeared a bit too often for comfort. Too early to
tell regarding Vista, but so far I'm very pleased.
RJM

"brink" wrote:

>
> RJ Muller;486572 Wrote:
> > On Monday, I installed Windows Vista (Business) as a clean install. All
> > was
> > fine.
> > Now that I've finished installing my software (Office 2007, Visual
> > Studio
> > 2005 - with the Vista service pack, SQL Server 2005 SP2, Symantec
> > Antivirus
> > 10.2 client) and had all the updates from Windows Update installed, all
> > the
> > menus that pop-out to the right of the start menu (Favorites, Recent
> > Items,
> > Administrative Tools, and the Shut Down/Restart, etc.. menu) don't
> > work!
> > They appear normally, but nothing is selected as I hover over items and
> > if I
> > click (either button) the menu just disappears.
> > I have tried enabling single-clicking and double-clicking. I have tried
> > switching to the 'Calssic Menu' (which works fine), but when I go back
> > to the
> > Vista menu, it's a no-go.
> > Has anyone had/heard of something similar? Do you have a solution
> > (other
> > than re-installing everything again!).
>
> Hi RJ,
>
> There is no solution for this yet, but there is a way to get it working
> again easily. Luckily it does not happen often. You just need to
> either restart the computer or restart explorer. This tutorial will
> show you how to restart explorer. It will save you time from having to
> go through a complete restart.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/78...-explorer.html
>
> Shawn
>
>
> --
> brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
> OM\")
> *Please post feedback to help others.*
>

RJ Muller;489646 Wrote:
> Thanks for the response and suggestion, brink!
>
> I had tried restarting the machine several times (I'm used to that
> after
> years of experience with previous versions of Windows ;-)). The problem
> persisted; however, shortly after I resorted to posting my problem
> here,
> explorer.exe crashed. Upon restart, Vista itself deirected me to
> KB941649. I
> installed the update and the problem has gone away.
>
> BTW.. as far as restarting the machine, which was a necessary and
> extremely
> frequent activity with Win95, and 98, and NT4, I found Windows 2000
> incredibly stable (running for months at a time without having to
> reboot). XP
> was pretty good too, but not as stable - "The system has recovered from
> a
> serious error" messages appeared a bit too often for comfort. Too early
> to
> tell regarding Vista, but so far I'm very pleased.
> RJM
>
>

LOL RJM,

I hear you and know what you mean about restarting in those older
Windows versions.

So far, I'm doing pretty good with the 64 bit Vista, and happy with it
to.

I am glad you were able to get your problem resolved. Thank you for
the feedback on the hotfix.

Shawn


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