About the Editor Editor Wanted This site needs a new editor. It could be you! Past Issues. Guest Author - Chris Curtis. The cascading menus in the MS Office products are designed to temporarily hide infrequently used menu commands and display only those commands that are most commonly used. When you first click on a menu choice, you will see a condensed menu selection that will fully expand after a 3 second delay.
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I actually like WinXP's Personalized Start Menus the feature where lesser-used programs and folders are automatically hidden but can be accessed when the menu's double-down arrows are clicked , but I can't get mine to work. Here's what happened I accidentally accessed a number of Start Menu items that I don't often use, and I didn't like the fact that they were appearing on my Personalized Start Menu.
Finally, note the option called Use Personalized Menus. When this checkbox is turned on, Windows watches you and studies your behavior that is, even more than usual. Some people find it disconcerting that Personalized Menus changes the Start menu frequently, making it difficult to get used to the positions of familiar items.
Enable dragging and dropping. Turning on this checkbox has two benefits. First, it lets you customize your Start menu just by dragging icons onto it, as described in the next section. Second, it lets you right-click Start menu items, which produces a useful shortcut menu containing commands like Rename, Properties, and Remove from This List.
If this checkbox is turned off, right-clicking Start menu items has no effect. Favorites menu. This option adds a Favorites command to the Start menu that lists your favorite Web sites and icons files, folders, and so on.
Thereafter, you can use the Start menu to launch Internet Explorer and travel directly to the selected site. Help and Support, Run command, Search.
These checkboxes govern the appearance of the corresponding commands in the Start menu. Network Connections. Printers and Faxes. Scroll Programs. Ordinarily when this situation arises, a second All Programs menu appears to the right of the first one, continuing the list.
But if you turn on this checkbox, all your programs appear instead on one massive, scrolling programs list. As you scroll down past the last visible name, the top of the All Programs menu scrolls off the screen.
There may be times, however, when you want to add something to the Start menu yourself, such as a folder, document, or even a disk. These are the two areas that you, the lowly human, are allowed to modify freely—adding, removing, renaming, or sorting as you see fit:. The top-left section of the Start menu.
This little area lists what Microsoft calls pinned programs and files—things you use often enough that you want a fairly permanent list of them at your fingertips. The All Programs menu.
This, of course, is the master list of programs and anything else—documents, folders, disks—you want to see listed. These two legal areas are highlighted back in Figure Once the Start menu is open, you can also drag it onto the All Programs button—and once that menu is open, drag it anywhere in that list. Adding disks and folders to the Start menu is especially handy, because it lets you dive directly into their contents without having to drill down through the My Computer window. Adding an application name to your All Programs menu requires that you find the program file, as described in the box below.
To do so, either use the Search command described earlier in this chapter, or use the Windows Explorer window described in Chapter 3. OK, I did that.
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