New User Quest. On Start Menu

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Robert11

Hello:

Brand new XP user, with new PC.
Looked thru a book on XP I bought, but still a bit confused over the
following.

When I go to Start/All Programs, on the left hand side of the page I have
the few programs that I "Pinned"
that I use a lot. This is fine, and what I want.

On the right hand side, I have a listing of allthe programs, apparently, in
the PC.
This is also fine.

But, on top of this listing, above a very faint thin line, I have also icons
for the following:

New Office Document
Open Office Document
Set Program Access And Defaults
Windows Catalog
Windows Explorer
Windows Update

a. Are these put there by Default ?

b. Can I remove them ? Or change them ?

This isn't really important, but am curious: I do not have a new copy of
Office on the PC; only a very old 1994 copy.

But when I click on New Office Document in this listing, it goes to the new
copy of Word that came with the new PC's
pre installed MS WORKS.

Why does it do this ?

Much thanks, as always,
Bob
 
Hey there Bob,

a) Yes
b) Yes, and Yes, you can drag new items to that list, however for the items
like you have listed below, I don't believe you can retarget them (However,
I'm currently at work under a preconfigured load and a GPO so I can't check
here :-p
c) I would assume that when works is installed, it sets that icon on the
menu, and therefore will taret the icon to itself

Have a happy holiday!

William
 
Bob,

The shortcuts which you're referring to, come from this location:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu

Add/Delete/Modify from there.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


Hello:

Brand new XP user, with new PC.
Looked thru a book on XP I bought, but still a bit confused over the
following.

When I go to Start/All Programs, on the left hand side of the page I have
the few programs that I "Pinned"
that I use a lot. This is fine, and what I want.

On the right hand side, I have a listing of allthe programs, apparently, in
the PC.
This is also fine.

But, on top of this listing, above a very faint thin line, I have also icons
for the following:

New Office Document
Open Office Document
Set Program Access And Defaults
Windows Catalog
Windows Explorer
Windows Update

a. Are these put there by Default ?

b. Can I remove them ? Or change them ?

This isn't really important, but am curious: I do not have a new copy of
Office on the PC; only a very old 1994 copy.

But when I click on New Office Document in this listing, it goes to the new
copy of Word that came with the new PC's
pre installed MS WORKS.

Why does it do this ?

Much thanks, as always,
Bob
 
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