On Windows the Start Menu is a customisable list of programs basically split into two main parts. One is the list of recently used programs and documents the other is hierarchical list of all installed programs and operating system components. The Start Menu on Wikipedia
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Windows XP Mode in Windows 7 Professional
I have installed an application which is not compatible with Windows 7 within Windows XP Mode and it works well.
How do I get this application into the Windows 7 start menu, so I don't have to load ...
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How to permanently remove/ban programs from the Start Menu Recent List? -part 2
In another post someone asked the question: How to permanently remove/ban programs from the Start Menu Recent List? (Since manually deleting them will only get them back on once the program is started ...
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Set Windows XP simple start menu via CMD/Registry
We're using temporary user accounts and when logging in, every time the classic start menu is restored.
The new two-column start menu is not blocked by policies. I can turn it on manually, but I want ...
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Something Wrong with the start menu on Windows
Whenever I start a maximized window of Google Chrome, my start menu disappears for some reason. The problem isn't just with Chrome. Although it is visible on both Internet Explorer 9 and Opera, the ...
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How do I add a shortcut to a website to the windows 8 start menu?
There's a couple of things that bother me in Windows 8 and one of them is that I don't seem to figure out how to add a shortcut to a specific website to the start menu. Is this possible at all?
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Recycle bin in Windows start menu search
Is there some way to add a Recycle Bin entry to the Windows start menu's search?
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Note I'm asking for something that will come up at the top when a part of Recycle Bin is typed, ...
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Finding Mail (32-bit) in the start menu
I find myself often visiting the Mail control panel for people I'm helping who use Outlook.
However, it never, ever shows up in the start menu for anyones computer:
Is there some magic string I ...
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On Windows 7, how can I make the Start Menu search feature include matches from within words, not just the start of the word?
I have a program installed called WinSCP. When I press the Windows key and type "SCP", I get "No items match your search." Is there a configuration option I can set somewhere, so that this item will ...
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Have start menu index applications in places other than program files?
I love the ability to type any phrase into the start menu, and Windows 7 will bring up relevant executables under Program Files.
However, I have a separate folder of my own where I store several ...
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Improve speed of “start menu” in Linux Mint 10 - Ubuntu 10.10 derivative
I have a global menu (including application, administration and system tabs) that is taking too much time (for me) to load (about 2.5 seconds).
Of course, this time is taken only during first start. ...
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Can I open the Start Menu just by hovering over the icon?
I like the CSS hover menus spreading over the internet very much and was wondering if I could do the same to my Start menu, and possibly this one too.
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Windows 7 - remembering past search terms in the start menu. Was I imagining this?
I seem to remember windows 7 being able to remember search strings you've typed in the start menu's search bar. I tend to use that bar to run commands (because it's slightly more convenient than ...
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How to permanently remove/ban programs from the Start Menu Recent List?
There are a number of programs which I always start using other methods e.g. via a desktop shortcut, therefore these programs are just wasting space in my Start Menu. I can manually delete them by ...
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Can I move Windows 8 Start menu hot corner?
I like my task bar vertical at the right edge of the screen. This puts the Windows button to the top-right corner, however not the windows hot corner. Is there any way to either move or disable the ...
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Start Menu right-side items missing in Windows Vista
A Windows installation under my care has suddenly started behave rather erratically. One of the user profiles now has a Start Menu where all the right-side items are missing.
There's another user ...
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How to get execution count of items in start menu recent programs list
In Windows 7, the recent programs list in the start menu appears to be ordered by how often each program is used (or more specifically, launched via the start menu?).
Just to satisfy my curiosity, is ...
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How would I specify specific start menu items for a certain user?
I have a member of my family with a user account that I am restricting,
I have already added loads of restrictions using the mmc.
What I want to know is, is it possible to set up a separate start ...
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Windows 7 has broken icons that look the same
My daughter has done something to her Windows 7 PC, but I'm not sure what and she can't quite remember. She is not an Administrator on her machine so it perturbs me that she has broken it so well. ...
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Windows 7 Start Menu: “Search programs and files”
In Windows 7, after pressing the Win key, you can type keywords to search for programs. How does Windows 7 determine the order of the search results? Sometimes it seems depends on the frequency you ...
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Windows 7 Start Menu / Taskbar shortcut icon issue
I'm running Win7 Ultimate x64, and have Visual Studio 2010 installed. The other day I mis-clicked and deleted the VS2010 program folder; I realised my mistake the next time I started the PC and ...
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How to fix an ancient Windows XP start menu bug?
I dual-boot Windows 7 and Windows XP. I still use Windows XP for some old software, but I never allow it to go online - the ethernet drivers are disabled in case I forget to power off the cable modem.
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Search feature in start menu isn't showing start menu shortcuts anymore
For some reason my search in Windows 7 start menu has stopped displaying results from the Programs menu. Any program that was installed that put shortcuts under Start Menu >> Programs used to show up ...
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How do I get the Kubuntu Application menu to appear above its button
Just installed a fresh Kubuntu 11.04 (plus wifi and nvidia drivers).
Got a weird but annoying issue whereby my App Launcher menu is appearing at the top of my screen when I click the button for it at ...
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stop the highlighting of certain new programs Windows 7
There are some programs that are highlighted in the start menu because I haven't used them yet. I overall love this feature, but don't want it to apply to a few specific programs.
How do I turn it ...
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Windows 7 won't keep my start menu settings (use large icons, # of programs shown)
In Windows 7 on my work computer, I can go to
Taskbar and Start Menu properties > Start Menu > Customize...
and checkmark Use large icons to get bigger icons in my start menu. I can also change ...
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How can I revert back to the old Start menu in Windows 8?
I don't like the new Metro UI.
Is there any way to get rid of the new Metro UI in Windows 8 and go back to the old Aero UI with its' Start Menu?
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How do I turn off the double-down arrow on Vista menus?
How do I turn off this guy here in the red circle.
Endlessly hides stuff I want
No obvious way to turn it off
No obvious name to make this easy to do a web search for
It's just these two arrows ...
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Windows XP Personalized Start Menu: how long until a program is hidden?
Yes, at work we're still on Windows XP. Our Start Menu is also forced to be the Classic Windows 2000-style that hides your programs. So my question is: how long is it until a program is hidden from ...
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Exclude Desktop Items from Recently-Used Items in Start Menu
I have the Show recently used items in the Start Menu option enabled in Windows 7. It is convenient because it keeps items I frequently use at hand so that I don’t have to hunt down their shortcuts, ...
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How can I make Windows 7's Start Menu look-and-feel like Windows XP's?
The reason for this is that I got accustomed to navigating the Start Menu with the keyboard, and I find that this is more efficient.
I tried importing the following .reg file, which helped with ...
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Custom folder with subitems in Start menu in Windows 7?
Is it possible to pin a folder containing sub items in the Start menu in Windows 7?
I want my custom files to be visible to users via the Start Menu, much like recent files are shown as a sub menu ...
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Start > Run autocomplete list is populated with non-MRU and non-existent files
If I go to Start > Run and type d:, the autocomplete list is populated with lots of files which have long since been deleted from d: and that I have never run via Start > Run (should not be in MRU). ...
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How do I restore the start menu after killing explorer.exe?
In Windows 7 64 bit, I killed explorer.exe, and then via the task manager do file->run "."
This method has always caused the start menu to reappear, but right now it doesn't.
After killing a rogue ...
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Some Start menu items become unlocalized after sysprep
I successfully deployed Windows 7 on some computers.
Now, in the Start menu, some items are in French (the native installation language) and other are unlocalized. I can see Welcome Center and ...
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Organising start menu shortcuts properly
I'm a bit of a clean freak when it comes to my start menu so I organise all of my shortcuts into categories.
The problem begins when I manually move a shortcut after the program has been installed. ...
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Why do pinned items show up twice in the Windows 7 start menu?
My start menu has two entries for Firefox. I pinned Firefox to the start menu. One shortcut is from the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs folder, and the other from ...
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Missing Start Menu programs on Windows XP SP3
I just removed a piece of malware that hides the entire C: drive on my Windows XP SP3 machine.
After cleaning it and running unhide.exe from Bleeping Computer, I noticed all the programs in the Start ...
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Windows 7 automatically rearranges the start menu
I've seen so many messages on how to rearrange the windows start menu and none mentioning the real problem in doing so which has been around since XP at least. I go to ...
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When running command from Start > Run, the command exits before I can see the results
When I run certain commands from the Start Menu (Start > Run), the screen closes and exits before I can read the results. If, instead, I run the command in a Command Prompt, the display remains until ...
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Windows 7 Start Menu search not working
There have been a lot of questions like this, however mine differs, so don't lock this one as a duplicate just yet.
Others have the problem that they only see categories with missing icons. I'm not ...
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Is there a way for a folder pinned to the start menu have a sub menu listing files?
This question deals with how to pin folders in Windows 7 and Vista since its not enabled by default.
I would like to see if its possible to take this one step further and see if I can pin a folder ...
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Change position of “All Programs” button on start menu
I currently have my taskbar set to the left side of my screen (which gives more vertical screen estate on a wide screen monitor)
One minor annoyance is that the start button is now in the top left ...
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Shortcut to Windows 7 Screen resolution setting other than by right-click on the desktop
I regularly have to access the Windows 7 "Screen resolution" setting on a netbook with many full-screen windows open, often with bogged down CPUs.
These are the usual necessary steps I have to ...
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Can I use the Windows 7 Start Menu search box to search files on a server?
I store most of my documents on a file server, and I'd like the Windows 7 Start Menu search box to search them. I don't want them to be available offline -- I've got more space on the server than on ...
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Program Does Not Show Up in Windows 7 Recent Programs
I run the program NetBeans all of the time. It used to always show up in my Windows 7 start menu all of the time. I recently reformatted my laptop and my main computer, downloaded the latest version ...
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Is it possible to have shortcuts appear in the start menu search through a symbolic link?
I have a folder full of stuff that I sync across all my computers and virtual machines. It contains a whole load of stuff, including portable applications.
On a new OS installation, I run a batch ...
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Adding Removed Item to Most Often Used Programs List - Windows XP
How do I re-add an item to the Most Often Used Programs list in Windows XP? That is, if I right-click an item in the list and select the Remove from This List options, how do I add it back? Do I ...
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Windows 7 Start Menu Dividers
Is it possible to put dividers in the Windows 7 start menu? If so, how?
I'd like to put dividers in the same location as the red line.
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Multiple “My Documents” folders?
I am having the issue, where, I have 2 folders called "My Documents". I recently edited my registry to make "Document" link in the Windows 7 start menu be a FOLDER link and not a LIBRARY link..
Here ...
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In Windows 7, is there any way to pin a shortcut to the start menu or taskbar?
In Windows 7, is there any way to pin a shortcut to the start menu or taskbar?
It appears if only programs can be pinned. I'd like to pin a shortcut to a program that specifies some arguments.
