XP Start Menu has No Icons

[zRo ToLeRaNcE]

I can't seem to remember when this problem started but it was after a clear the Most Often Used Program List. Now there are no programs that are being stored in this list. No matter how many times i open a program...the list stays empty. When i right click the area that the list suppose to come up, i only see properties.

I have now reduced the Recently Used Program Lists to 0 so i don't have to look at the big empty space.

I have XP SP1 + Style XP. I have also tried changing the visual style to see if it has any affect but it doesn't.

No spyware/malware/trojan/virus present on system to date.

I can still "Pin Item to Start Menu"

Any help appreciated.

[BlaqMale]

did you use any kind of optimizers or regedits to turn off user tracking? if you did then you'll have to re-enable user tracking and increase the number of most often used programs, reboot and then you should see the list again after opening a few programs.

[zRo ToLeRaNcE]

User Tracking...interesting
Maybe Ad-Aware SE Pro did something but i have run Ad-ware checks all the time so i don't think that it could have done something. But i will have to check in its quarantine to see what was taken off the last time. Maybe an updated defintion messes with the Windows Start Menu.

Will do when i reach home. Any other suggestions??

[zRo ToLeRaNcE]

did you use any kind of optimizers or regedits to turn off user tracking? if you did then you'll have to re-enable user tracking and increase the number of most often used programs, reboot and then you should see the list again after opening a few programs.

IT WORKED!!

I found out that the culprit was XP Smoker. Its a tweaking program for Windows XP. When you run it you can click on "Recommend" for it to scan your system and then it will recommend some settings.

I didn't realise that it had "Disable User Tracking" as one of the item so it back to normal now.