[XP Home] Black Start Menu in Microsoft Help http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20170735 en Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:56:24 EDT Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:56:24 EDT Re: [XP Home] Black Start Menu http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20497063 bcastner : There was an issue with Kelly's-Korner where the Registrar failed to renew the site registration; despite the fact that Kelly had a subscription term remaining of three years with the Registrar.

DTS-L had the same issue with this Registrar. It was an on and off mess for several weeks.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20497063 Sat, 17 May 2008 07:57:39 EDT Re: [XP Home] Black Start Menu http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20496865 FourWheelKid : Just wanted to mention that Kelly's Korner is back up :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20496865 Sat, 17 May 2008 04:38:39 EDT Re: [XP Home] Black Start Menu http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20491888 danPuters : I've hit exactly the same problem. A dodgy stick of RAM caused it too. Have you had any luck getting it back to normal?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20491888 Fri, 16 May 2008 09:16:52 EDT Re: [XP Home] Black Start Menu http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20177571 auggy : Does it make any difference if you stop and then restart the "Themes" service?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20177571 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:40:57 EDT Re: [XP Home] Black Start Menu http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20174782 Vathral :
said by ChiTang See Profile :

System restore!
Disabled. After the mess it has made for me in the past, no way. The laptop doesn't have any image software but my desktops does.
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»web.archive.org/web/200708111142···eaks.htm
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A sad day for XP tweakdom, if it's permanent. :(
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20172517 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:54:40 EDT Re: [XP Home] Black Start Menu http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20172486 Vathral : No good on the control panel thing.

It seemed that alot of people had this problem and there was a site with a registry hack that would completely reset start menu stuff. The site is gone however :(

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#31 - Disable Changes Made to the Start Menu - Undo
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said by Vathral See Profile :

said by AB See Profile :

Do you have a Logitech camera or camera drivers on that machine?
said by Vathral See Profile :

I have no installed anything recent except for removing one of the defective memory stick, the other one is fine with no errors from memtest, and from google searches, I do not use anything logitech :P
Yep, right in front of my face and I never saw it. Good thing it wasn't a snake. ;)

Sorry about that. Good luck to you.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20172448 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:26:43 EDT Re: [XP Home] Black Start Menu http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20172398 BosstonesOwn : 2 things to try , first increase the icon size and restart pc , then set them to normal size.

2nd if you have a logitech web cam , there is a driver bug with them. Set the control panel as a menu and see if it fixes it.

My solution was to change the Start Menu to not have control panel as a menu item and swap it back to a link.
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said by AB See Profile :

Do you have a Logitech camera or camera drivers on that machine?
said by Vathral See Profile :

I have no installed anything recent except for removing one of the defective memory stick, the other one is fine with no errors from memtest, and from google searches, I do not use anything logitech :P
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said by anthrorules See Profile :

Did you try switching between the XP Start Menu and the Classic Start Menu options via Properties in Task Bar?
said by Vathral See Profile :

It shows up fine in Class Start Menu mode and would use that instead but if there is an underlying problem, I would like to get it solved.
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:P

Doesn't show up right in safe mode either, just tried it :(

Repair install was the first thing I wanted to try but theres another problem involving the disc drive. I think I should just put this 3 year old lappy to rest.
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Cudni]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20171436 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:50:48 EDT Re: [XP Home] Black Start Menu http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20171434 auggy : Does the same problem occur if you restart the computer in Safe Mode?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20171434 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:50:40 EDT Re: [XP Home] Black Start Menu http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20171428 AB : Do you have a Logitech camera or camera drivers on that machine?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20171428 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:49:42 EDT Re: [XP Home] Black Start Menu http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20171393 Vathral : Nothing from what I saw. The first time I removed the ram, when Windows finished loading there was a message on the line that Registry has fixed some problems. No real details anywhere I could work from :/
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Cudni]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20171367 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:34:52 EDT [XP Home] Black Start Menu http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20170735 Vathral : So this Compaq Presario V2000 laptop I have (and typing on) had a small malfunction of equipment. One of the 2 memory sticks failed and it was apparent when the BSOD stopped appearing.

So I ran chkdsk, settings on the laptop reset a bit, etc. Now the start menu appears black.

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It shows up fine in Class Start Menu mode and would use that instead but if there is an underlying problem, I would like to get it solved.

Anyone has any ideas what could cause the start menu to turn black? What could have possibly been corrupted? The event viewers doesn't show anything and I don't even have a minidump directory/folder anywhere.

I have no installed anything recent except for removing one of the defective memory stick, the other one is fine with no errors from memtest, and from google searches, I do not use anything logitech :P

Thanks
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