[natedog1127]

I recently discovered that the ability to right click and explore the folders in my start menu has become disabled.

I like to keep things organized so I often need to arrange folders or create new folders in my start menu. It's always been very convienient for me to simply right click a particular folder off the start menu and choose "explore" or "explore all users". I immediately would gain access to the appropriate start menu folder by windows explorer opening to the particular folder I explored.

Up till recently this has never caused a problem. Now when I release the click on explore or explore all users nothing happens. Like I said, normally explorer would open up and I would have access to my start menu folders.

I still get the context menu with the choices, I just cannot get a response when selecting to explore a particular folder. It's just like the old days before windows allowed exploring start menu folders.

Oddly enough I am still able to explore the Programs folder using the method I have described. But I am unable to explore any sub menu under it.

I do have dragging and dropping enabled. I have tried it both ways and neither resolved the issue. My security privilages are in order, I checked that too. File permissions are normal. I am afraid that there is something corrupt in the registry where the shell for the context menu or the start menu folders is kept.

Has anyone ever had this happen? Do you know of any fixes?

Thanks.