Have you tried doing a repair using your Microsoft Office Disk ???

I would suggest you unpin those first.... then put in the Office Disk... it should prompt you with some choices... select repair... and let it do it's thing... when finished, reboot and try again.

 

If that did not work, next step would be to uninstall Office and reboot, then reinstall Office again.

Worth a try.

 

 

 

Peace

 

 

Thanks I use the run command so it isn't that important, could be a dodgy update. I will run the diagnostics first thanks.

You seem to have a lot of pinned programs. Why don't you use the quick launch toolbar for some of those? Beats using the run box.

Not a fan of quick launch, takes up to much room on the taskbar. Will stick with the run command just now.

 

Well, it worked on quick launch.

 

Done a repair of office via add/remove programs still same symptoms.

 

Don't get if its a Vista or Office problem as it is only the office items pinned to the start menu that don't work. However it is windows explorer that shows an error.

 

And if you think I have alot of items pinned up, it used to worst on XP I had everything on small font and pinned up so my start menu was the full length of the screen.

 

Next up I guess is a full reinstall of office and then a full reinstall of Vista (But I can't be bothered with that just now).

Ok, I thought of a solution that worked, I wasn't to sure about it but done it anyway:

 

McAfee Quick Clean with 10× shredd, all items selected.

 

All works now.

 

Must of been the registry or shortcut cleaner in it I think.

I'm very greatful for all the help anyway.  Thanks alot.

Ok the McAfee Quickclean was a temporary fix.

 

The problem came back and another Quickclean did not solve it.

 

A repair of microsoft office did not fix this either.

 

A uninstall and reboot and then reinstall of office 2007 did not fix this either.

 

Now when I right click any application on the start menu apart from internet explorer and outlook explorer stops responding.

 

Also when I right click on any application in the all programs folder it stops responding.

This is usually caused by buggy shell extension(s). Try "Method 2" in the following article to isolate the problem.

 

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers 

 

Hmmm thanks tried that the night before and to no success. Tried it today again because was pretty tired and no success.

 

Done a full reformat and then installed all recommended updates. It was fine.

 

Then installed 2 optional updates.

 

The problem is either with 1 of these 2 updates, after I restored my computer to when these were installed and all worked.

 

Just incase anyone else has this problem it was either:

 

KB937286 or KB943729