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How to clean up your Start menu in XP
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Thursday March 19, 2009
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Thursday March 19, 2009
Every time you install a program it creates a folder. In general, you seldom if ever need those folders. If you keep the icons of the program you need most on your Desktop, then you can hide away all those folders. That makes your Start menu much easier to navigate.
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- Click on Start, then on Setting and then on Taskbar and Start Menu.
- Click on the Start Menu tab. In the next window click on Customize.
- Click on Advanced and then double-click on the Programs folder.
- The idea is to hide away all the folders you don't need to see.
- Right-click, select New and then select Folder.
- Give your folder a name that means something to you. I call mine Windows Folders, but you can use Extra Folders, Folder Group or whatever you like.
- Now, drag every folder you don't need to see and drop it on the Windows Folder.
- This effectively cleans up your Programs menu.
- Now go into the catchall folder and create two, new folders.
- Name one "A to L" and name the other "M to Z".
- Now, move the folders alphabetically so all folders from A to Z end up in the A to M folder. Then put the rest in the M to Z folder.
- When you're done, close out of that, click OK and OK again.
- If you click on your Start menu it will now appear greatly slimmed down.
- If you should need something you can navigate to the catchall folder, and then find what you need alphabetically.
- Click on the Start Menu tab. In the next window click on Customize.
- Click on Advanced and then double-click on the Programs folder.
- The idea is to hide away all the folders you don't need to see.
- Right-click, select New and then select Folder.
- Give your folder a name that means something to you. I call mine Windows Folders, but you can use Extra Folders, Folder Group or whatever you like.
- Now, drag every folder you don't need to see and drop it on the Windows Folder.
- This effectively cleans up your Programs menu.
- Now go into the catchall folder and create two, new folders.
- Name one "A to L" and name the other "M to Z".
- Now, move the folders alphabetically so all folders from A to Z end up in the A to M folder. Then put the rest in the M to Z folder.
- When you're done, close out of that, click OK and OK again.
- If you click on your Start menu it will now appear greatly slimmed down.
- If you should need something you can navigate to the catchall folder, and then find what you need alphabetically.
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