That's interesting, I had the same thing happen to me two or three days
ago. Although, my Update was magically replaced by a shortcut to a small
..txt file I had saved on my desktop. I did a simple system restore to a
system checkpoint two days prior and it came back. I'm running WXP Pro.

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" <mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Yesterday when I clicked on Windows Update, which I had pinned to my start
> menu, I got a message saying the link couldn't be found. So I went to
> Help and Support and found it there. How do I go about getting it back in
> my start menu? It's no longer in Accessories/System Tools either.
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> Mortimer Schnerd, RN
> mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com
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