How to Restore Start Menu Defaults
- 1). Open the Start menu.
- 2). Right-click in a space not occupied by a program shortcut in the Start menu. (If you right-click over a program, you can only make changes to the properties of that program, not to the entire Start menu.)
- 3). Click "Properties" on the "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" menu that opens.
- 4). Click "Customize" beside "Customize how links, icons, and menus look and behave in the Start menu".
- 5). Click the "Use Default Settings" tab in the box that opens and click "OK." Click "OK" again to exit "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties".
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