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Windows Icon List Sometimes Doesn't Work or Many Programs Labeled 'New
My Dell Laptop recently had two hard drive "errors". These have been taken care of/repaired per system msgs. I also ran chkdisk /f. Didn't get any msgs.
I posted about this last week and got some guidance but have some continuing problems. Sometimes when I look at the list you get when you click the Windows icon, the list looks normal but if I click say Windows Accessories, I don't get a list of them, and the Icon list disappears. Other times all the Windows Programs and quite few others in the Icon list are labeled 'New'. When I click on a 'New" item it gives the expected response.
Also, over half the items in my Start list screen have disappeared.
What is causing this strange, very inconvenient behavior? What can be done?