I have not had this issue. My suggestion if they work from the regular
location in the start menu remove the pinned ones from teh start menu and
re-pin them to the start menu.

"harmonp" wrote:
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> Not all programs listed in the pinned area and recently run area of the Start
> Menu will run when you click on them. This is true particularly of MS Office
> programs. Some programs will run when clicked on, but not others. With
> those that won't run, you have to go to "All Programs" and select them from
> there. This is very annoying, because you never know which programs will
> run. In Windows XP, you never had this problem. I was hoping that SP-1
> would fix this, but it didn't.
>
> Do others have this problem? Can it be fixed?[/color]