Re: Customize Start Menu

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From: KMO (Kmo53153_at_aol.com)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:49:47 -0000

"george" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:O9PV22DmEHA.952@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl:

>
> "KMO" <Kmo53153@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns95617D9DD1D2CKMO@216.168.3.50...
>> "Chad Harris" <ddram32_nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in
>> news:#xWJn8slEHA.3520@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl:
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>> actually, by right clicking on start and using show all is not
>> showing all the programs that are listing under programs. I still
>> have a smear of folders on the list that are not listing in this
>> other place? How do I get them into that new folder made of
>> infrequently used items.
>
> if you right click on start you have:
> open all users (and at the top of the list)
> open.
>
> The latter one is the program group for *your* userid only, ie.
>
> some software installs specifically into *your* Programs group and are
> only visible in the list when *you* are logged on, whereas other
> software installs for *all users* Program group and will always be
> visible in the list, regardless who's logged on.
> The install routines determine that. FYI they used to be called
> 'Programs' and 'Common Programs' in days past!
> In those days this distinction was visible in the Start menu.
> MS decided (in it's inifinite wisdom) that this was no longer
> necessary and so the distinction is no longer visible in the Start
> menu.
>
> So you open *both* program groups and just drag all shortcuts you want
> into the 'parking' group you decided upon.
>:-))
>
> hth and is not too confusing
>
> george
>
>
>
Actually I am the only user of this pc and I did figure it out, I just
started to drag and drop into another folder. I never did open *all
users* as you said, I just dragged directly from the programs from the
start menu into the new named folder that I made existent on the program
listing as in *programs hardly used* and that worked. I have just been
having some right click problems lately which I am working on trying to
get fixed and when I was trying to do this, I didn't work the first few
times I gave it a shot. But drag and dropping worked for me. Now I have
to go and look at *all users* for the heck of it and see what it lists.
:) Thanks.

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