help me please: ERROR-No Program Start menu found. How do I f

ok, I got a windows xp home edition computer from my friend, it is a custom
made one. The windows xp is an OEM product, so microsoft is willing to charge
me $59 to tell me how to fix it since its not insured... I searched under
Find Error Message on the site and it wasn't there. I get this error message
" Error, No Program start menu found." whenever i try to install something
onto my computer. I put the disk into the tray, and a window pops up showing
the drive with the disk in it. When I click on the install file, this error
message appears. Also, when I click on the start menu, on the left column,
there are no programs on the list. I right click in the blank area and click
on properties. Then to the right of the start menu button I click on
Customize. From there I click the Internet Box and tell it to put a shortcut
of Mozilla Firefox on the start menu. Then I click ok, Apply, and Ok again.
After this I open the start menu again, and what do you know, its not
there... Can anyone please tell me how to fix this and the error message
please? I really don't want to pay $59 dollars to fix what has got to be a
quick 2 minute fix. Thanks guys.

Re: help me please: ERROR-No Program Start menu found. How do I f

I'll fix it for you. My minimum charge unit is for 4 hours and my rate is
$200.00 per hour. Just incase you can't do the math that will be a minimum
of $800.00.

Maybe $59.00 doesn't seem so much after all.


In real terms the person who is responsible for supporting your copy of XP
is the person who installed it in the first place. That is what OEM means.

On top of all that this group is for .NET Framework and programming related
discussions.


"JD" wrote in message
news:E9F50843-1A11-42D6-B7A3-88D765F193CF@microsoft.com...
> ok, I got a windows xp home edition computer from my friend, it is a
> custom
> made one. The windows xp is an OEM product, so microsoft is willing to
> charge
> me $59 to tell me how to fix it since its not insured... I searched under
> Find Error Message on the site and it wasn't there. I get this error
> message
> " Error, No Program start menu found." whenever i try to install something
> onto my computer. I put the disk into the tray, and a window pops up
> showing
> the drive with the disk in it. When I click on the install file, this
> error
> message appears. Also, when I click on the start menu, on the left column,
> there are no programs on the list. I right click in the blank area and
> click
> on properties. Then to the right of the start menu button I click on
> Customize. From there I click the Internet Box and tell it to put a
> shortcut
> of Mozilla Firefox on the start menu. Then I click ok, Apply, and Ok
> again.
> After this I open the start menu again, and what do you know, its not
> there... Can anyone please tell me how to fix this and the error message
> please? I really don't want to pay $59 dollars to fix what has got to be a
> quick 2 minute fix. Thanks guys.

Re: help me please: ERROR-No Program Start menu found. How do I f

care of their
honour, their property, their friends, and even with the property and the
honour of their friends. They are overwhelmed with business, with the study
of languages, and with physical exercise; and they are made to understand
that they cannot be happy unless their health, their honour, their fortune
and that of their friends be in good condition, and that a single thing
wanting will make them unhappy. Thus they are given cares and business which
make them bustle about from break of day. It is, you will exclaim, a strange
way to make them happy! What more could be done to make them
miserable?--Indeed! what could be done? We should only have to relieve them
from all these cares; for then they would see themselves: they would reflect
on what they are, whence they came, whither they go, and thus we cannot
employ and divert them too much. And this is why, after having given them so
much business, we advise them, if they have some time for relaxation, to
employ it in amusement, in play, and to be always fully occupied.

How hollow and full of ribaldry is the heart of man!

144. I spent a long time in the study of the abstract sciences, and was
disheartened by the small number of fellow-students in them. When I
commenced the study of man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not
suited to man and that I was wandering farther from my o

Re: help me please: ERROR-No Program Start menu found. How do I f

we must make
it lovable, to make good men hope it is true; finally, we must prove it is
true.

Venerable, because it has perfect knowledge of man; lovable because it
promises the true good.

188. In every dialogue and discourse, we must be able to say to those who
take offence, "Of what do you complain?"

189. To begin by pitying unbelievers; they are wretched enough by their
condition. We ought only to revile them where it is beneficial; but this
does them harm.

190. To pity atheists who seek, for are they not unhappy enough? To inveigh
against those who make a boast of it.

191. And will this one scoff at the other? Who ought to scoff? And yet, the
latter does not scoff at the other, but pities him.

192. To reproach Milton with not being troubled, since God will reproach
him.

193. Quid fiet hominibus qui minima contemnunt, majora non credunt?[24]

194. ... Let them at least learn what is the religion they attack, before
attacking it. If this religion boasted of having a clear view of God, and of
possessing it open and unveiled, it would be attacking it to say that we see
nothing in the world which shows it with this clearness. But since, on the
contrary, it says that men are in darkness and estranged from God, that He
has hidden Himself from their knowledge, that this is in fact the name which
He gives Himself in the Scriptures, Deus absconditus;25 and finally, if it
endeavours equally to establish these two things: that God