All Menu items disappear in QTP v11 after running a test which crashed the QTP Q

I came across this issue while running some of mine tests in QTP. While running the test, QTP crashed (surprise , surprise!) and after re-launching the QTP all my menu items were gone! After some research I found a solution, hopefully this will save you time:

If above occurs, perform the following in QTP:
1) Launch QTP
2) Navigate to Tools>Customize
3) Select Toolbars
4) Click on "Restore All"

This should bring all your menu items back. Apparently it is an issue with QTP and HP is promising to fix it in the future release.

QTP v11 and Silverlight

While in the process of creating several automation suites that deal with SL plug in, faced a problem where QTP would not recognize anything.

After some "googling" tried to uninstall Silverlight v4 and installed v3, that did not work. Realized that there is a patch from HP, but had difficult time finding the download site. Came across this resource, just sharing this with you. If you are running QTP v11 and having difficulties with SL plug in, you will need to install QTPNET 00051 and QTPWEB 00090 patches, but you can find other patches there as well.

http://www.joecolantonio.com/downloads/

Thank you Joe Colantonio!!!