If I have multiple apps of the same type, like video editors, then they could all be grouped together. So Premiere and VirtualDub would be grouped together.
Sometimes I can't remember the names of all of them, so it makes it nice to be able to group them. How do I clean up the Windows 10 start menu? There are entries there I have no interest in seeing all the time -- like xbox. I'd like to create a hierarchy under the "All Apps" menu now.
All the apps will still be there, but organized better. I don't want a flat menu there. That's just not efficient and doesn't reflect any use model other than what happened to the start menu in windows 8. When you right-click, you might also note that Pin to Start menu is an option. When you select that option, the shortcut will be moved to the top of the Start menu, directly below the E-mail link.
You can also remove a program that was pinned to the Start menu by right-clicking, and choosing Unpin from Start menu which will restore it to its position on the lower part of the start menu , or choosing Remove from This List , which will remove it completely from the Start menu.
Well, I don't know about you, but that's nothing that I need there! Just right-click an empty space on the Start menu, click Properties , click Customize and select the Advanced tab.
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How-To Geek is where you turn when you want experts to explain technology. To set this option, right-click the Desktop and choose Properties from the popup menu. Go to the Desktop tab, and click the Customize Desktop button. In the dialogue box that opens up, go to the Start Menu tab and click on the Advanced button. At home, I call this one Check Here First! Drag everything else and drop them on top of the Programs folder, to move them out of the way for now. Take a peek at the Start Menu--you should see a for now empty menu on top, and everything else in a probably messy Programs sub-menu.
Now open each folder, and look at the contents--look for icons that you or your students use quite regularly--perhaps KidPix or Microsoft Works, or Windows Paint, or Netvista, or All the Right Type. Select the icon, and right-drag it to the left-hand side of the window, where you should be seeing a list of folders--including, at the top, the new folder you created for your frequently-used icons. Lift the right mouse button to drop it onto that folder--a context menu will pop up with choices: Move Here, Copy Here, Create Shortcut Here, or Cancel.
Left -click on Copy, to drop a copy of the icon here. Repeat for all frequently-used programs. Feel free to experiment. Too many of us have Desktops cluttered with many icons--some of them leftovers of the Windows 9x installation, but not really needed, and others icons created by program installations. Ask yourself whether users need access to each icon--if not, maybe it should be deleted.
You may want to create folders on the Desktop, and store some of your icons there. Or are the icons better off in an easily accessible place in the Start Menu or down as mini-icons in the Taskbar's Toolbar area, rather then on the Desktop at all?
Typical messy Start Menus have too many icons in two places--the top of the Start Menu above the Programs submenu , and within the Programs submenu itself. Both can and should be cleaned up. In order to get the Start Menu under control, it may be helpful to know how Win9x stores the Start Menu. Menu items are shortcut icons like the Desktop icons , while sub-menus are folders within the main Start Menu folder.
And you may need to clean up the Start Menu and Desktop for each log-in individually. You can access these using My Computer or Explorer, and change the Start Menu by deleting, copying, or moving files and folders, just as with any other set of files. If you double-click on the Programs folder in our Explorer-view of the Start Menu, you see the same--but now you can do something about cleaning it up.
To start with, make a number of new folders, named with categories of application-types. At Maquinna, the folders I add are: Applications for various programs that get productive work done , Cd-Roms for encyclopedias and other programs that need to have a CD inserted , Education for all sorts of educational games and programs , Games, Internet for Netvista, Netscape, Internet Explorer, and more , and Utilities for all those things that are more tools than programs that you actually open on their own--virus programs, mouse, sound, and video utilities, movie viewers, etc.
I also keep the existing Accessories folder for all those miscellaneous programs that come with Windows 9x--WordPad, Paint, and more, along with that Windows Update Wizard we may have moved from the top of the Start Menu. Starting with the Internet Explorer 4 add-on to Windows 95, and carrying through subsequent versions of Windows, Microsoft added Toolbars , optional sets of little icons either on the left-hand side of the Taskbar beside the Start button , or on the right-hand side, beside the System Tray.
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