I'm having some trouble with the All Programs menu, off the start menu.

I use Windows 7, and wrote a batch file to make several new text files in the folder:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

Files in this folder are supposed to to apper in the All Programs menu.

After running the program, I can see that the files were made succesfully when I open the above directory. However, the files do not appear under All Programs.

Instead, when I view the All Programs Menu, the scrollbar automatically appears in the middle of it's vertical track (you know what I mean). When I try to scroll up, it simply appears where it was again. (But I can scroll down).

I thusly can't see any of the new files, because they all begin with a and thusly are the first programs when sorted into Alphabetical order.

Screenshot of highest point that Scrollbar can reach before reappearing downward

Also, when I delete different (pre existing) files from C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs, they remain in the 'All Programs' menu. (Trying to open it gives an error message that the file doesn't exist).

I then deleted ALL of the new files that I created in the appdata directory, yet the Scrollbar problem persists, probably because of the 2nd described problem.

Any ideas?

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