Shoutbox

When I click on "START/ALL PROGRAMS" the listing exceeds the screen's width, so some programs on the rightmost area of the screen are not visible. How can I access them? Is there a 3rd party plugin that will make them visible in a "2nd page"?

shortening any long program/folder names will shrink the width of the coloums

You can always select "Scroll Programs" as well in the startmenu properties.. If the list is long enough to exceed over that far onto your screen though, it would be a lot of scrolling to get to the bottom items. You could also try using "Show small icons in start menu" which may shrink it down enough to fit on one page.

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Originally posted by stu
You can always select "Scroll Programs" as well in the startmenu properties.. If the list is long enough to exceed over that far onto your screen though, it would be a lot of scrolling to get to the bottom items. You could also try using "Show small icons in start menu" which may shrink it down enough to fit on one page.

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Thanks but the "Scroll Programs" option takes a lot of scrolling for this listing, and also it's already set to "Show small icons"...

Just make some subfolders for the programs you don't use often?

The problem with grouping like applications together is that when uninstalling you have to manually remove the entry from the list (no big deal but still a drawback). Regarding the scrolling option, it is really slow having all this programs installed, specially when scrolling down to the bottom. It would be great to have an "All Programs" list that would work just as the old Netscape Navigator "Bookmarks" did (if anyone recalls), you only needed to click on the very last item in the list to instantly pop up the 2nd page with listings, etc. I wonder if Vista adds this functionality and if there is any 3rd party application that will enable XP to add this feature.

How many applications do you have and what resolution do you use!?!

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Originally posted by kao
How many applications do you have and what resolution do you use!?!

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I don't know how many, but I use 1600x1200 resolution and have 5 1/2 columns of listings

5 columns on such a resolution sounds kinda extreme... Could you post a screenshot of it ?

i used to have a lot of programs like that then i reformatted my c drive