Tag: start_menu
If you’re willing to clear the Recent Documents list, too, there’s a nice, easy way to clear the list. Right-click the taskbar and choose Properties. Click the Start menu tab and click the Customize button next to whichever Start menu option is active. If you use the Classic Start menu, simply click the Clear button. If you use the Microsoft Windows XP Start menu, click the Advanced tab and then click the Clear List button. (Yes, I know it doesn’t say that it also clears the Run list, but it does.) Now just click Cancel, Cancel—you’re not actually changing any settings.
If you need to automate the cleanup process, or if you must clear the Run list while leaving Recent Documents intact, you can do it with a Registry script. Launch Notepad and enter these two lines: Read More»
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February 22, 2007 by
Jason The indexing service in Windows Vista is responsible for making those search boxes all over the operating system lightening fast. By default Windows automatically indexes all files in your user profile folders, start menu and any files you have setup for offline access. If you have a lot of files in these locations and the files change often you can be putting a heavy load on the indexing service. For maximum performance when using Windows Vista I recommend disabling indexing for all other locations other than the Start Menu. This will lessen the background work that Windows Vista has to do. It will also slow down your searches of other locations but that is the price you must pay for this performance benefit. Read More»
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February 12, 2007 by
Jason A. Start Menu Privacy
Every time you open up a document or launch a program Windows Vista keeps track of this information to build the list of application for recently run applications and recent documents list.
1. Right click on the taskbar and select Properties.
2. Click on the Start Menu tab.
3. Uncheck Store and display a list of recently opened files.
4. Uncheck Store and display a list of recently opened programs.
5. Hit OK and you are finished.
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February 09, 2007 by
Jason If you’ve become used to surfing your Program Menu to get to applications, you’ll be in for a shock when you first use Microsoft Windows Vista. The new Program Menu shows you only recently used applications and requires extra clicks to navigate to submenus. I found this very frustrating until I realized that the Search box Microsoft has added to the Start menu is a great replacement—as long as you’re an accurate typist. As quickly as you can type, it returns intelligent results in apps, files, and even e-mail Ă‚Âmessages
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February 08, 2007 by
Jason
Vista Start Menu has been in development as an attractive and efficient alternative to the Start Menu in Windows XP
Features:
* Everything stays in place
* Flexible zoom
* Resizeable menu
* Comfortable scrolling
* Tabs Read More»
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February 03, 2007 by
Jason Windows XP is a very powerful operating system, but unfortunately a lot of the very useful functionality is hidden away.
These hidden gems can be unlocked by using the Windows XP Hidden Application Enabler. This great piece of freeware unlocks 43 hidden applications and adds them to the Start menu for easy accessiblity. Read More»
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February 02, 2007 by
Jason Sometimes making your PC ‘run’ faster is just about changing the way programs run e.g disabling splash screens. This tip will make your machine feel faster, by increasing the speed with which menus load, by removing the delay between clicking on a menu and that menu being displayed, which is enforced by XP.
To enable this tweak do the following: Read More»
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January 29, 2007 by
Jason If you are a regular visitor to these pages you should know all about the current epidemic of zombification. For those of you that missed it, this is when a PC is hijacked and used with other PCs to spread Spam and viruses. Some experts reckon that as much as 80 percent of Spam could be coming from zombie PCs, working together in so-called ‘botnets’. Read More»
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January 28, 2007 by
Jason
1.Find them, and then run them You might use the Start menu Search box to type an applications name, and then press enter to run it, no need to go looking.
2.MS-DOS command prompts Type command in the Start menu Search box, press Enter and you can return to command land. You can also use the Start menu Search box in place of the Run dialog box.
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