John,
Don't have an answer for you, and someone may well come along and help but,
there's also a very good newsgroup
'microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers' which has lots of very helpful,
'knowledgeable about xp' people.
hope you get sorted
dfrog
"John Rampling" <> wrote in message
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> After five years using Windows 98 I have just upgraded to XP and find the
> Start Menu mystifying! Sometimes shortcuts seem to go missing from my
> programs list and I have just found out why.
>
> In the Documents and Settings directory I see three Users, called 'All
> Users', 'Default User' and 'John'. Each has a subdirectory called 'Start
> Menu'. When I click the 'Start' button I tend to get the 'John' files but
I
> think it sometimes shows me 'All Users' instead.
>
> Furthermore, when I install a new program it adds a new shortcut to the
> Start Menu BUT I can not predict whether it will add it to 'All Users' or
> 'John'. That is why my shortcuts sometimes go missing - they are on the
> wrong Start Menu! And if a shortcut appears under 'All Users' it does NOT
> appear under 'John', despite the title.
>
> (What's more, there is a folder on my Start Menu directory called
> 'Application Data' which appears in Explorer but not on the Start Menu
> itself - that's OK because the folder has the 'hidden' attribute set, so I
> can figure that out.)
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Or is it just another Microsoft annoyance? And
> what can I change to bring my computer under my control?
>
> John
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