More Vista woes. For a while now, I've been unable to launch apps from the Start menu's shortcuts. I can go into the All Programs and then nav to the app and launch it, but from the dynamic shortcuts immediately available from the start menu, no go.
After Googling a bit, I found out that some third party shell extensions can interfere with launching from the Start menu. Way annoying. After downloading ShellExView, I went, one-by-one, through the non-MS extensions and eventually came to the shell extension for Hex Editor 3. Disabling that returned Vista's start menu to functionality. Whee!
What a start to Caturday!
These people aren't kidding. It's cutting-edge use of a CRM engine, bleeding-edge, really.