Forums: Waiting for Godot:

So I start up my old laptop for the first time in a while. If I go to Start, all the shortcuts above the divider is gone, and my entire Programs folder is empty.

If I go to my Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs that's empty as well, but all the programs is still in the program files folder in explorer.

The only thing that has been installed in the last year has been antivirus definitions.

Any way I can get it back without reformating?

in my professional opinion, it's shit itself.

remember, as they say at british steel; if a hammer won't fix it, fuck it.

question is.....is it worth fucking with to get it working?

two things.

run chkdsk from the comand prompt with the command

chkdsk /r

and see if that fixes anything.

also, if you have a windows disk, try the repair option.

Beyond that, its fucked.

What happns if u drag the icons onto the start dropup

Have u checked sysoc.inf to see if they have some how become hidden
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