davethefish1
09-03-2003, 08:05 PM
4) Lost Menu Options
Hi Fred. Here's a mysterious problem: When I right click on the start button (Win98 SE), the Open and Find options are grayed out. Right click works fine in all other drop down menus. Any ideas? Regards, Mike Read
It's surprisingly common, Mike, and can affect any of a variety of menu options (not just Open and Find). Most of the problems involve one of the versions of the popular-TweakUI "PowerToy." Just take a look at these sample Knowledgebase items, for example and you'll see a common thread--- TweakUI interfering with one or more menu options--- running through many of the listed items: http://search.support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?Query=tweakUI .
But not all problems are covered in the above, because TweakUI is an officially unsupported add-on.
Other venues have more specific info. For example, see "GRAYED-OUT COMMANDS IN START CONTEXT MENU" at
http://mooselake-net.com/tips/win98_6.html, or see http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t995428581
Or: Simply uninstall TweakUI. When it works, TweakUI is handy and useful... but when it starts causing trouble, you'll see why Microsoft never released it as an officially supported utility. On some systems, it causes very weird things to happen!
Hi Fred. Here's a mysterious problem: When I right click on the start button (Win98 SE), the Open and Find options are grayed out. Right click works fine in all other drop down menus. Any ideas? Regards, Mike Read
It's surprisingly common, Mike, and can affect any of a variety of menu options (not just Open and Find). Most of the problems involve one of the versions of the popular-TweakUI "PowerToy." Just take a look at these sample Knowledgebase items, for example and you'll see a common thread--- TweakUI interfering with one or more menu options--- running through many of the listed items: http://search.support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?Query=tweakUI .
But not all problems are covered in the above, because TweakUI is an officially unsupported add-on.
Other venues have more specific info. For example, see "GRAYED-OUT COMMANDS IN START CONTEXT MENU" at
http://mooselake-net.com/tips/win98_6.html, or see http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t995428581
Or: Simply uninstall TweakUI. When it works, TweakUI is handy and useful... but when it starts causing trouble, you'll see why Microsoft never released it as an officially supported utility. On some systems, it causes very weird things to happen!