Pixelique

Yesterday something weird happened to my computer. First I saw my Shut Down button in the Start Menu disappear suddenly, second thing is the Run command in the menu also disappear, I also cannot display the Context Menu by using right-click on the menu. Last thing is that when you right click on the task bar, the Task Manager is disabled.

For instant I thought these problems must be caused by one of two reasons:
1. My system administrator is doing something with the group policy in the domain server.
2. My PC must be infected by some virus or adware or malware or whatever things.

So while trying to figure these out. I am trying to do quick search see if there's any info about this weird things.
1. I found how to get back the Task Manager enabled again. It seems my registry for the Task Bar and Start Menu are changed or corrupted. So if you have same problem you run this registry file by right clicking - save as here, save to your desktop and later you run it from the desktop. After restart your Task Manager should be enabled.

2. I also found how to get back the Run icon command menu, run this registry file by right clicking - save as here, save it to your desktop and run it from your desktop. After restart you will see your run icon should be appear again.

3. How then to get back the Shut Down button just follow the same way with those first two. Right click here, save and run the registry file.

And if you feel you so curious want to know more, and become advance you can refer to this Microsoft Knowledge Base article about these Start Menu Tweaks.

Also you can find many WinXP tweaks here.

Happy Tweaking!