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1. Wolven
   Member

   I use a great freeware proggie called Tidy Start Menu. It really cleans up and organizes your start menu tree - Saves a deal of manual work on the tidy up and leaves the menu far easier to navigate. Just found Vista Start Menu, which is from the same developer. It has a freeware version which I have played with for 30 minutes, and it is a really nice piece of software. Has a couple of small bugs but they will be ironed out. For anyone running Aston Shell with a Vista theme, this menu fits right in with the GUI - looks good. It sits in the task tray and opens mid desktop.

   Anyhow Mr. Admin., any chance of getting the PRO version as a GOTD giveaway? It is discounted to $19.99 at present with lifetime updates for those who may want to purchase it later.

   http://www.vistastartmenu.com/index.html

   Works with...
   Windows NT
   Windows 2000
   Windows 2003
   Windows XP
   Windows Vista

   Thanks Boss.

   P.S. Here's a link to Tidy Start Menu for those who want to give it a spin.
   http://www.tidystartmenu.com/index.shtml

   Posted 1 year ago #

2. Bobby
   Member

   auuugh! ..Wish I had seen this Tidy Start Menu before I purchased Talisman a few hours ago! It would have been a perfect match for the management program I had used prior to the purchase.

   ~heavy sigh~

   I know of a couple folks who will be able to use this program, though...thanks for the link.

   Posted 1 year ago #

3. BuBBy
   Administrator

   Yes - nice program. I remember playing with that when it was a lot less feature complete and even back then I remember thinking how nice it was.

   Since then I've almost completely given up on my start menu altogether. The fact is, my start menu is just so ridiculously large (across almost 2 monitors) that finding stuff is just crazy.

   The solution I found - launchy.

   Launchy has almost 100% replaced my start menu - and it's faster than trying to manually locate items by several seconds. It takes about 10 minutes to read a help file and get used to it. Afterwards you will wonder how you managed without it. It is just that good.

   http://launchy.net

   As they say, the simplest ideas are often the best.

   Posted 1 year ago # | Login to Send PM

4. Wolven
   Member

   Bobby,

   Haaaaa,..I have a hot-line to the 'BIG' boss - He never lets me down. You have suffered enough. I'll tell him we are square [smile].

   Posted 1 year ago #

5. Wolven
   Member

   BuBBy,

   Didn't see you there. Another good one is Hidden Menu... http://www.snapfiles.com/get/hiddenmenu.html

   Prior to Aston's Shell, I had a scrolling Quick Launch filled with tools and utilities, and a 5 column full-screen Hidden Menu loaded with all my favorite apps. (a simple mouse-over gave me instant access to a color-coded screen of 200 programs - One click and any of the 200 were running - No searching through directory trees and files). When I did need to go into Start > Programs, Tidy Menu made it a breeze.

   Once Aston is fully loaded I will have Quick Launch and perhaps retain one column of hidden menu (working as a second Quick Launch).

   You should take a look at Tidy Menu if your setup is such a mess. The free version gives you a bunch of standard categories to place programs into. The Full version allows you to create your own categories also. The best solution is to use the free version to automate most of the sorting, then if you wish to make extra categories, do it manually by creating the folders in Start Menu > Programs then sort your remaining programs into those folders. I have 17 program categories,..sooooo easy to navigate, compared to the mess Windows makes of it over time.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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