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[slowday444]

Instead of just creating an Open Office Calc shortcut, I dragged it from the start>Programs list. I would still like to have in the list but short of a system restore I can't figure out how to get it back in there. I did a reboot but that didn't work. Thank You!

[TonyKlein]

A System Restore will not restore a Start Menu shortcut.

Various ways to recreate one. Here's one:

Rightclick your start button, and choose "Explore all users" or "Explore" (depending you want the shortcut to appear in every user's Start Menu or not)

Drill down to the location you want the shortcut to appear in, rightclick an empty spot > New > Shortcut, and you're off.

Even easier, you can also simply grab the shortcut you moved with the RIGHT mouse button, and drag it to your Start Button.

After a sec, the Start Menu will pop up.
Keeping the Right mouse button depressed, drag the shortcut to the preferred location, relaease the mouse button, then choose 'copy here' from the context menu.

[slowday444]

Thank you so much TonyKlein! I was not aware of "right click" capabilities, that was just great. This was not important, just me obsessing. Glad it happened though because now I know another windows trick!

[TonyKlein]

you're very welcome - glad to help.