When the Start menu is open, you can open the All Programs menu in a number of ways: by clicking the All Programs menu, by pointing to it and keeping the mouse still for a moment, or by pressing the P and then the right-arrow keys on your keyboard.
Speaking of keyboard fanaticism: Once the programs list is open, you can also choose anything in it without involving the mouse. Then press Enter to seal the deal. Clearly, the graphic designers were on vacation the day Microsoft came up with this one. The All Programs menu appears superimposed on the regular Start menu, adding a third column in a second layer—not the most elegant visual solution, to be sure, but at least easy to find.
This can be a very useful feature; if you check your email every morning, you may as well save yourself a few mouse clicks by putting your email program into the Startup folder. If you spend all day long word processing, you may as well put Microsoft Word or WordPerfect in there. If you have a lot of programs, the All Programs menu may itself consume multiple columns on your screen.
If this columns-on-columns effect makes you a bit dizzy, just replace it with the simple, one-column, scrolling Programs menu of Windows gone by. To do so, right-click the Start button, then choose Properties from the submenu. Next, click the Customize button, click the Advanced tab, and scroll down the list of options until you see Scroll Programs.
Turn on the checkbox and then click OK twice. Now your programs list may still be too tall for the screen. But you can scroll the list by pointing to the tiny black triangle arrow at the top or bottom of the menu without clicking.
And of course, you can always select items in the list from the keyboard. It can just as well be a certain document you consult every day. The My Documents folder is a natural example. Forums New posts Search forums. New posts New posts New profile posts Latest activity.
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The backup is saved as a. Please note that this is no longer needed in newer versions of the Windows operating system which sort items alpha-numerical by default and display recently added items separately.
I still have everything appearing at the bottom same as before. Thanks for the info. I had to rewrite the article to make it work for another pc i tried it on.
Here are the steps:. Yeah, Skone is right. You would have to repeat that process every time you install a program. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Please click on the following link to open the newsletter signup page: Ghacks Newsletter Sign up. Ghacks is a technology news blog that was founded in by Martin Brinkmann. It has since then become one of the most popular tech news sites on the Internet with five authors and regular contributions from freelance writers.
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