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Williams was last seen in the custody of Calkins in Calkins told investigators that he picked up Williams for driving without a license, but says he ended up dropping him off at a nearby Circle K instead of arresting him. Calkins was fired during an internal investigation after becoming uncooperative and giving conflicting statements. No arrests have been made in connection with their murders. She was declared legally dead by her mother in In Chioma was reunited with her family.

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Deputies from Loudoun County are being sent to North Carolina to take him into custody and return him to Virginia to face the charges. In Satara was found safe in a Los Angeles hospital. On February 2, Satara Stratton was found deceased. The manner of death was an overdose. It is believed that Morgensen died due to an accidental fall. On April 22, authorities arrested Ronnie Dean Busick , and charged him with four counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, and one count of arson.

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In June Lauryn was seen at a grocery store in Shoreline, Washington by a childhood friend. Her family confirmed that it was her. A notice later added at the end of the Disappeared program states that Lauryn made contact with her family in October In , Enrique Arochi, the last person to be seen with her, was convicted of her kidnapping and sentenced to life in prison.

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On November 16, human remains were found buried in a backyard of a home in the block of 70th Street in Lubbock. I also created a mirror post on thevistaforums. I am experiencing this same problem, and I haven't been able to find much on the net in the way of answers. I'm not sure what was the trigger for me, as I recently installed a Logitech webcam and also ran some "vistaclean" program from Lexmark which they said was necessary to get Vista to work with my Lexmark printer. One of these two must have been the issue, but I don't know what I can do now.

I don't think a "backup" of the start menu has been created anywhere, so will I just have to manually add in all the shortcuts?

This is very annoying. Did any of you try rolling back a System Restore Point to see if that got you your folders and shortcuts back? Has anybody got a decent solution for this problem??? It is driving me crazy!!! But then suddenly they ALL vanished from my start menu. It's absurd! Also it does not appear that anything in particular is triggering this.

It is very random. Is this a vista BUG? I called microsoft regarding this problem and I felt like I was talking to a bunch of incompetent monkies. They didn't know anything and had no plans on a fix. For what it's worth, I have Vista installed, and whenever I move around existing shortcuts or folders inside the Programs folder, they disappear. Whenever I make a new shortcut or folder there, it doesn't show up at all.

I ran into this issue yesterday and after a good bit of research, and trial and error, found a viable, and actually pretty simple, fix.

Hope this helps…. Wash, rinse, repeat until your All Programs works. Disclaimer: This is what worked for me, on two systems. Your mileage may vary. You do this at your own risk and while this should not break your system nor is it really even dangerous , take care and do it slow. You assume all the risk and liabilities in this process and I assume none i. This resolution is provided as a good faith effort to help, yada, yada, yada.. You should see something like what is pictured below, though the actual contents may be a little different.

This will kill the explorer process, taskbar, start menu, etc. This step is very important. Unless you restart Windows Explorer your results i. Make a change, kill and restart Explorer. Wash, rinse, repeat…. This will restart Explorer, and the taskbar, Windows orb, etc should all re-appear. Now you can also begin to move stuff back up from Stuff into the Programs folder as need be.

Tags: Windows7. Mine's blank again too. I guess not. Further troubleshooting commencing. And THIS time it survived a reboot. In my case I installed a few things between my initial fix and reboot, so maybe that pushed my count over the edge This works! Click on the Start Menu. Open the Programs Folder. Drag all the other folders into the A folder. Close Windows Explorer. If you click on the A folder, you see all of your Programs.

NOTE: In this folder the folders follow single shortcut items. Bob Schild. Bob, Yep, I tried that approach too and it did seem to work, but I didn't really like it. I wanted my All Programs folder to look "normal" and not have to drop one additional level down And I'd guess it works for the same reason as my approach, because it limits the number of items in Programs folder in this case drastically limits it since everything is moved into that new sub folder But in any case, thanks for comment!

Thanks a lot Greg, I was going to restore to a previous date but tried this and worked! Thanks for taking the time to post this. I arrived at same solution. I have not worked out if the limit is on the number of items or the total string length of the item names.

It really needs to be fixed ASAP. I recently performed a fresh install of Win7 build , and immediately noticed this issue. On my end at least, it seems unrelated to the number of icons I have in my Program shortcuts: I only have 28 total, and it's not reproducible -- not even from one second to the next!

I can open it up and have it blank, click away to close it, and open it up again and have everything populated correctly. I've also noticed that if you have your Start menu set to display icons as menus instead of links, one or two levels in to your personal folders or similar it starts getting dog-slow rendering the miniature icons next to each menu entry -- perhaps this is a related issue?

I too tried this method to avail, the new folder A trick worked, but that's not how it should look. After scratching and searching the net for a fix. Nothing worked.

Then I thought what the heck, and the heck worked. Had the same problem. The trick with the A folder works, the other doesnt, Must be a simple mistake of the editor, thanks for both contributions. Basically under Programs should be the shortcuts only and too many folders crash the thing First, thanks for these tips. I had the same problem.

I've just moved all files and folder into another sub-folder for "All users" only , and without restarting Explorer nor rebooting, all shortcut can be seen again. Renaming the folders one by one worked - until the reboot :- My installation on x64 was to a freshly-formatted disk.

This was after an upgrade attempt which failed to roll-back properly. I'm not sure when I lost the All Programs list, but it brought home to me just how little I rely on the shortcuts. Thanks Greg, I just love it when someone puts things simply concisely and with pictures.

Windows 7 start menu Problem solved first go Just moved Stuff I rarely use to stuff leaving about 40 items and it was fixed. Cheers, Brendan. Thanks, Was really annoying. Not that it is of such big importance one can still find any item with search but still another inconvenience solved. Thanks man. Thanks Greg, In build tested x86 this bug is fixed almost.

In all previous builds if i copy the all users links and folders until i have like at some point they are not there anymore. Note that i select all icons copy paste, so the first time i have 10 new icons the second time 20, then 40, then 80, then , then , then Now i have icons and the menu is not empty. It took a while for me to find this fix, and I know what I'm looking for, but dang Microsoft, didn't you get it when Vista fell flat?

The normal users will find this bug and will be instantly P. Thus far, Windows 7 is unimpressive, just like Vista. So Microsoft has heard and has addressed it Normal users should not go near it full stop. Vista got most of it's bad rap from the pirated beta's going around the p2p networks.

Boyz wanting to have the 1st bragging rights no matter if the machine was supported or not usually not. Being a beta rtm user and you found this fault, did you report it to Microsft?

It takes time, and time is something some cowboys are not prepared to give. This isn't a beta it's an RC. That's actually a big difference. Too many shortcuts Ya gotta just laugh really Thanks for the fix - worked like a charm!!! Googled for answers to above 'all programs' empty problem, your site was number one option and I am glad I chose it!

Thank you to everyone who posted suggestions and results. Running fresh install of 64 W7,RC; I have no idea either when 'it' started showing empty before today. Moved original folders in and instantly all are showing in All Programs again.