Here's our Windows 95/98 Tip for.. September 26, 2001
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Grayed-Out Commands In Start Context Menu
We can't tell you how many times we've been asked what to do if you right-click the Start button and the resulting Open and Explore options are inactive, or grayed out. It seems this problem can arise if you use the TweakUI PowerToy to hide one or more drives on your system. To resolve this problem, Microsoft suggests that you unhide any drives.

Open Tweak UI, click the My Computer tab, select any unselected check boxes, then click OK. Restart Windows 98, right-click Start, and those Open and Explore commands should be back in business.

The TweakUI PowerToy is on your Windows 98 installation CD, in the tools\reskit\powertoy folder. To install it, right-click tweakui.inf and select Install. To open Tweak UI, double-click its icon inside the Control Panel.