Re: Why do people ignore the Start Menu?

Hi Brad,

When people walk in my office at work or at home and look at my desktop,
they run away, shrieking.

Then...when they come back in and I click on my Start Menu and expand All
Programs, they just immediately slump to the floor, and I need to bring out
the smelling salts to revive them.

It's easier to listen to them shriek. :>

And do we really need to get into what kind of "junk" I have lying around my
offices? :> :>

Alan

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Can someone explain why they don't use the Start Menu for program
shortcuts? Why dump icons all over your Desktop when it cuts off their
names and forces you to minimize running apps? It also covers up
wallpaper photos.

I can see putting a handful of icons on the Desktop, but not a whole
%#@! hard-drive's worth. At work, how many people regularly use more
than 4 or 5 programs, and how many monitors have 30 to 50 icons all
over the screen? I don't get it. Just stick the rarely-used ones in the
Start Menu. That way you'll be able to read their full names when you
try to remember what they're for. You can also put them in handy
categories.

I'd like a logical explanation for the general shunning of the Start
Menu. It's been around since Win95 but many crowded Desktops still
resemble the Win 3.x era. What do the homes of these users look like?
Toys and junk all over the floor?

Brad


(sense of humor, please)



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