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W7 Start menu has a mind of it's own.
Si_Crewe
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Anybody else noticed this?
Seems like sometimes I'll click on Start and the list of programs displayed is completely random.
Over the last few days, for example, I've been adding drawings to documents and, as a result, the only programs in my Start menu are stuff like Visio, AutoCAD, Sketchup, FreeCAD, Word, Acrobat etc, which is as it should be because they're the programs I've been using recently.
But, for no apparent reason, this morning when I clicked Start the menu was populated exclusively be a bunch of games which I haven't played in months or, in some cases, even years.
The computer hasn't even been rebooted since the last time it was used.
It just seems like, after I went to bed last night, my PC thought to itself "Y'know, he's been doing wayyy too much serious stuff over the last few days. He needs to lighten up so I'm gonna offer him a bunch of games to play!".
Anybody else get this or know what's causing my PC to populate my Start menu with apparently random junk?
Seems like sometimes I'll click on Start and the list of programs displayed is completely random.
Over the last few days, for example, I've been adding drawings to documents and, as a result, the only programs in my Start menu are stuff like Visio, AutoCAD, Sketchup, FreeCAD, Word, Acrobat etc, which is as it should be because they're the programs I've been using recently.
But, for no apparent reason, this morning when I clicked Start the menu was populated exclusively be a bunch of games which I haven't played in months or, in some cases, even years.
The computer hasn't even been rebooted since the last time it was used.
It just seems like, after I went to bed last night, my PC thought to itself "Y'know, he's been doing wayyy too much serious stuff over the last few days. He needs to lighten up so I'm gonna offer him a bunch of games to play!".
Anybody else get this or know what's causing my PC to populate my Start menu with apparently random junk?
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Another guess. An AV program is running on startup and checking the old games. Windows flags them as recently opened and puts them in the left pane. This doesn't happen to me either, but I don't run an AV check on startup and I have unchecked the recently started options.
Right-click the Start button > Properties
Check that the options are what you want, including the numerous Customize options.
Is it a bad thing? Why shouldn't Windows have a mind of it's own? I mean, it's not as if you can rely on the users to know what they want....