collapsing menus

[P D Sterling]

all right - I have solved the collapsing menus in Word and Excel, but
now what about Windows? I am so depressed about this.

also, is there a way to edit the right click menus? I never want to scan
a file with AVG, zip a file with WinZip, etc etc etc.

any advice would be gratefully appreciated
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Regards,

P D Sterling
214/520-6655 voice
214/550-2618 FAX

 

[Malke]

all right - I have solved the collapsing menus in Word and Excel, but
now what about Windows? I am so depressed about this.

also, is there a way to edit the right click menus? I never want to
scan a file with AVG, zip a file with WinZip, etc etc etc.

any advice would be gratefully appreciated

Since you didn't post to your original thread, I have no idea what your
"collapsing menus" problem was so I can't help you with that.
"Collapsing menus" doesn't mean anything to me, sorry.

As for the right-click context menu, it is easily managed with the free
ShellExView utility:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

Just disable the context menu entries you no longer want.

Malke

 

[Malke]

all right - I have solved the collapsing menus in Word and Excel, but
now what about Windows? I am so depressed about this.

also, is there a way to edit the right click menus? I never want to
scan a file with AVG, zip a file with WinZip, etc etc etc.

any advice would be gratefully appreciated

BTW, posting your phone/fax numbers on Usenet is a Really Bad Thing To
Do. Thousands of people read these newsgroups (some of whom may not be
Nice People) and posts are archived on Google Groups for years. There's
nothing you can do about this now, but in the future be more cautious.

Malke

 

[Patrick Keenan]

BTW, posting your phone/fax numbers on Usenet is a Really Bad Thing To
Do. Thousands of people read these newsgroups (some of whom may not be
Nice People) and posts are archived on Google Groups for years. There's
nothing you can do about this now, but in the future be more cautious.

It is sometimes possible for a poster to issue a cancel request on their own
messages. The OP uses Thunderbird, which I don't have, but in Outlook
Express, you just open the message and use Tools, Cancel Message.

Google will often honor requests from posters to remove messages from
archives.
http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8380

Once these are done, Google searches can be used to verify that the posts
are gone (allowing time for requests to propagate).

HTH
-pk

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

It is sometimes possible for a poster to issue a cancel request on
their own messages. The OP uses Thunderbird, which I don't have, but
in Outlook Express, you just open the message and use Tools, Cancel
Message.

The problem, however, is that you can only cancel the message on the server
you are posting to. Newsgroup messages are very quickly propagated to the
hundreds or thousands of other news servers around the world, and your
cancellation has no effect on them. If you issue a cancellation immediately
after sending the message, it might have some effect, but if you delay even
a short time, it's essentially useless.

 

[P D Sterling]

Since you didn't post to your original thread, I have no idea what your
"collapsing menus" problem was so I can't help you with that.
"Collapsing menus" doesn't mean anything to me, sorry.

As for the right-click context menu, it is easily managed with the free
ShellExView utility:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

Just disable the context menu entries you no longer want.

Malke

--

Thank you for kind words, education, and appropriate criticism. I am a
bit new to Mozilla products, and I find it annoying that it appends the
signature after you finish the message, rather than before, as in
Outlook Express.

That being said, my term collapsing menus means that only recently used
features in the drop down menus appear, with the last choice being a
down arrow, which eventually dissolves and shows all the choices. I am
re-establishing my preferences, having lost a hard drive, and not having
been able to get it recovered. However, I am not a complete goof; all
data was backed up, just not programs and preferences.

Any help you can offer is gratefully appreciated.

P D Sterling (typed in)
Phone Number (has anonymous call rejection and callerid)
FAX Number (is a virtual number and can be changed in a moment, if
something goes wrong)

 

[Malke]

P D Sterling wrote:

You're still posting beneath the signature delimiter. Here's what you
said:

*****
"Thank you for kind words, education, and appropriate criticism. I am a
bit new to Mozilla products, and I find it annoying that it appends the
signature after you finish the message, rather than before, as in
Outlook Express.

"That being said, my term collapsing menus means that only recently used
features in the drop down menus appear, with the last choice being a
down arrow, which eventually dissolves and shows all the choices. I am
re-establishing my preferences, having lost a hard drive, and not having
been able to get it recovered. However, I am not a complete goof; all
data was backed up, just not programs and preferences."
*****

I use Thunderbird for mail but not for a newsreader. For mail, you can
set the quoting to be above the signature in Account
Settings>Composition & Addressing. Not the most intuitive place. I had
to really search around to find it and I've been using T-bird for
years. See if that helps reading the news quoting. I expect it will.

I also hate "personalized menus" and always turn them off. I see where
you found the option in MS Office programs. For the Windows Start Menu,
right-click on the Start Button and then left-click on Properties. If
you use the XP Start Menu, click on the Customize button and then on
the Advanced tab. I believe you want to clear the "Scroll Programs"
checkbox.

If you use the Classic Start Menu, you do the same thing but in addition
to clearing the "Scroll Programs" checkbox also clear the "Use
Personalized Menus" box.

I'm glad to know you are safe re the telephone numbers. A lot of people
who post here don't understand that this isn't a cozy safe chat
environment but is instead Big Bad Usenet. ;-)

Malke

 

[LVTravel]

You have the help you need for the 2nd question. Here is
the fix for the first.

Right click on Start. Left click on properties. Left click
on Start Menu. If you have Classic Start Menu selected, Left
click on Customize. Scroll to the bottom of the list and
turn off check mark on Use Personalized Menus. You should
now see all start button menu items without resorting to the
click and wait for the menus to open.

If you have Start Menu selected, click on Customize. Click
on the Advanced tab. Uncheck "Open submenus when I pause on
them with my mouse." All program items will open when you
click on All Programs.

If you want to enable more programs to be displayed on the
menu when you click Start, increase the number from the
default of 6.

 

[P D Sterling]

I'm very grateful for your time and patience - I have turned off the
signature for the moment, as I appear to have forgotten how to write
HTML, and I was cross with nice formatted messages followed by a skanky
unformatted signature. Again thanx for all your help!

 

[P D Sterling]

People wonder why I am so crabby all the time, and I have to tell you
that screwing up software with new features that I have lived 59 years
without, is not a custom menu, it is an unwanted intrusion.

Thanks for taking a moment to post!!

Regards,
P D Sterling
Dallas TX
--

 

[LVTravel]

No problem, glad to help.

I always use Classic Menu so I really had to think how to
switch this off in the "newfangled" XP menu system (I really
don't like it either.)