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Missing items in "Start" menu and "All Programs" menus

Asked by dgnc in Windows 7

Tags: Windows 7, 64 Bit, Start menu, All programs menu

I did a fresh install of Windows 7 Professional to a Crucial 256Gb SSD about 5 ays ago and installed a number of programs including Adobe CS4 Web Premium and Microsoft Office. All appeared OK until yesterday when most of these programs disappeared from both the Start Menu and the All programs menu. It left a few in both but there seems no pattern as to which ones remained e.g. Microsft Outlook is still there but not MS Word or Excel.

Some of these programs are on the taskbar and clicking on those and  programmes open OK. One of the taskbar item (for editpad pro) is  'not found but apart from that the taskbar appears OK.

All the programs are in "program files" or "program files (X86)"

Things like documents, pictures and videos are mapped to be on a drive (H:/users/... ) to the OS drive (C: - 256Gb SSD)

I have done a search but none of the solutions seem applicable or work and seem to relate to all items missing not just some of them.

How do I get my start menu and all programs menu items back
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taskbaricons.jpg (23 KB) (File Type Details) 
Some of the task bar items showing the one that is 'missing'
Some of the task bar items showing the one that is 'missing'
 
 
startmenuallusers.jpg (95 KB) (File Type Details) 
All programs -> Open All users
All programs -> Open All users
 
 
startmenu.jpg (50 KB) (File Type Details) 
Start Menu
Start Menu
 
 
allprog.jpg (55 KB) (File Type Details) 
All programs menu
All programs menu
 
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