Start Menu help required

[Guest]

The Vista start menu is driving me nuts.

I re-organise my own start menu folders and apps. Everything was fine on XP
but under Vista, after a re-boot, some folders that I have deleted re-appear.

Is there a good guide anywhere to help with organising the Viista start menu
before I go totally insane?

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Paul

Right click the Stat button and select Properties and the options
are there.

What are you wanting to use? The new Vista Start Menu or the Classic
Start Menu? Beyond that how do you want to Customise?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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[Guest]

I have done that. I am using the Vista-type start menu.

You have to use OPEN as well as OPEN ALL USERS to make the changes to the
start menu.

For example I make my own folders say: office, graphics, multimedia etc and
then move the various programs into these folders. however when you re-boot,
after say deleting Power DVD, the folder will/may re-appear on re-boot.

Christ, why do they have to make it so difficult to perform such a simple
task? I want MY start menu MY way. Not theirs.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Paul

I suggested Properties not OPEN or OPEN ALL USERS! When you have
made changes you click on Apply and then OK.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Guest]

Geyy that does not do what I want.

I have tried that, and it is not possible to create, edit and delete ALL
folders in the start menu there.

If you delete some folders for example (power DVD) and re-boot, the power
dvd folder just comes back.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Paul

It sounds like you are working with 2 separate locations of the Start Menu
folders?

Clicking Open opens the start menu that is located in,
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu.

Clicking the Open / All Users opens the folder in,
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu.

It's best to use the All Users location. If there are any shortcuts in the
C:\Users location that do not appear in the All Users location, move these
shortcuts to the All Users location.

Then perform your customization.

 

[Guest]

Ronnie, Thanks. Problem fixed.

Paul

It sounds like you are working with 2 separate locations of the Start Menu
folders?

Clicking Open opens the start menu that is located in,
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu.

Clicking the Open / All Users opens the folder in,
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu.

It's best to use the All Users location. If there are any shortcuts in the
C:\Users location that do not appear in the All Users location, move these
shortcuts to the All Users location.

Then perform your customization.

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

 

[ordinarysoft]

Hi,

Ups, I come to late and problem has solved. But In future you may use
Tidy Start Menu for this task -
http://www.tidystartmenu.com

For Windows Vista right click it and run as admin. After you all done,
log off and log on to clear menu cache.

But you don't need create all this categories if you start using
normal menu instant of system menu.
Try Vista Start Menu
http://www.vistastartmenu.com

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Paul

Glad this helped. Enjoy.