I turned this on, but it’s one of those items you may want leave disabled on a shared system. I don’t often access this folder, but when I do, I want to get to it quickly, so enabling it as a link is fine. That’s a much quicker way to launch games that are in the Windows games folder.
I display this in the Start menu as a fly-out menu. The default is “Don’t display,” but I like it as a link, which lets me get to the Downloads folder with one click. I enabled “Display as a menu.” The various drives and top folders appear on a fly-out menu. If you’re running on a relatively low-resolution monitor (like a laptop), you may want to keep the number at 10. The default is 10 I set it to 20, since I have a large display. Number of recent programs / recent items to display (under “Start menu size”).I’m only going to list those changes, not what I kept at default settings. Here’s a summary of the changes I made to my own Start menu. You’ll see a fixed-size window (you can’t make it bigger), with a lot of different options. These are put under “Privacy” because you may not want them enabled for a shared system, but for most users, turning these options on (if they’re not already on by default) is a no-brainer. My personal preference is alphabetical sort, which you could do in XP by context clicking on the All Programs section and sorting.Ĭustomization begins here for both Start menu and the Taskbar.You’ll see a pair of settings here that you should enable: (1) Store and display recently opened programs in the Start menu, and (2) Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and taskbar. This tends to give recent XP converts heartburn, but you can change this behavior when you customize the Start menu. Unlike XP, though, the applications are sorted alphabetically. Lots of people happily use the Start menu in this state, which is very XP-like.
When you start up a new system, or perform a clean install of Windows, this is the Start menu you see. The Start menu, at its most basic.The Start menu is so named because that’s where you go to start applications, restart or shut down Windows, and perform other basic application management chores. I’ll first walk through the plethora of options for each, and then dive into how to use them more effectively. However, they also offer a slew of additional capabilities and customization options that aren’t obvious when you first look at them. In Windows 7, the Start menu and the taskbar have become both easier to use and more sophisticated.
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