2nd Satellite where Start Menu Disappears

My fiancee just bought a Toshiba Satellite laptop a couple of weeks ago. It was meant to replace an older one that seemed to be deteriorating as well as help us make the jump out of XP (I have my own desktop). One of the problems that had been happening on her older one was that the start menu would disappear and re-appear, making it necessary that we hunt down all those relevant programs the long way. One day, it finally disappeared for good. That system had Windows XP on it.
This one has Windows 7 and it has the same problem. Just today, the start menu vanished. I don't know if the start menu will return or if it is gone for good but I have never seen this problem before except on the two Toshiba laptops I have become familiar with.
I would like to know this is easily fixed or if I should avoid Toshiba computers altogether.
Thanks in advance.

Satellite A505-S6980
when clicking on the Windows icon, the items that have normally appeared on the left due to frequent use or from having been pinned to the start menu are gone. All that remained was "My Toshiba."
So you're saying the Start menu is essentially empty? Use System Restore to bring it back.
What is System Restore?
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