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[flemmings]

ETA: I am going to cry. Run menu is missing from startup. I google for cures.

Right-click on the Start button
Click on Properties
Select the Start Menu tab
Press the Customize button
Select the Advanced tab
Scroll down through the Start menu items list
Check the box next to Search and/or Run

There is no Run box. Just as there is no Folder Options tab under Tools in Windows Explorer (that was for trying to export favourites.) Corrupted user profiles aren't usually this corrupt.

I'm sure dealing with this techy stuff keeps the brain cells limber and active, but right now it's a bloody pain. All I'm trying to do is set up another user on WinXP. And somehow in the same versions of IE and Firefox as I use in my own version, all the menu backgrounds are grey and none of my favourites will export; and I can't send Windows programs to the desktop by left-clicking.

Gah.

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[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

Hmm, when you get to that second to last step - in Windows Explorer, can you create a new shortucut with the following target:
%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe

That should put a shortcut to Run (cmd.exe) in the start menu folder. ... Maybe?

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Works, but. It gets me cmd.exe OK, but when I put in the command (gpedit.msc) it opens the program or whatever it is, and promptly closes it. It does this with hijackthis as well. I think this system is just foutue.

[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

Also, if the new account you are trying to create/modify is a "Guest" account, it will have limited functionality. If you go back in to your main account (which should be an administrator), go into the User management thing from control panel and check that the new account is not limited to "guest" -- there should be another non-admin option.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

No, the problem was malware-- hijackregedit and hijackrun, in fact. Once removed I can now run my other spyware and malware programs, that the viruses were aborting. There's still no Run box in the left-click Start menu, Folder options has returned to Windows Explorer.

The moral being, keep your machine clean.

[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

Ahha. Nasty stuff. >.< Glad to hear you got it cleaned out.