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Win7/Vista Start Menu
Submitted by DJM on Fri, 23/07/2010 - 19:23
I am now using Win7Ult. I never liked the WinVista Start Menu. I have 200+ applications but 50 of them are "photographic". Does anyone know how to tame the Start Menu to WinXP standards [where category folders could be created & the whole thing jumped out to a full page menu]? Best wishes to all Fuji folk, David M.
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goto control panel/appearemce/taskbar and astart meneu/ start menu customisation.
You can change loads but whether it will be exactly like XP, I dont know
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Hi David - lovely to see you around, How's all the family?
Win 7 - I think the old type win XP is not possible with Win 7 - but you will get used to it and actually I don't think, when you find your way around, that it is that different. You have the menus available when you click the 'windows' icon bottom left, and then it is click and open each section.
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David - I've had Win7 (home premium though) since it first came out - and if I can manage it ok I'm sure you can!!
Dave!!
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I like XP and I use Win 7 too (a gift so I have to!)
Try this out:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/2227/get-the-classic-start-menu-in-windows-7/
I'll be honest I think MS should have left the classic option in there but that should satisfy your needs. Another peeve with Win 7 is no filmstrip view (why?) and the photo import is urgh..unlike XP. Aside from that Win 7 is not bad
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Hi David,
The easiest way I have foung to bunch simular programs together is to create a folder on your main desk top, give it a name for what you want to put in it & then just either drag & drop all of the relevant progam icons into it that are already on your desktop or if they dont have an icon, right click on the program in the menu, choose 'send to desktop', which will then create an icon that can then be placed into your chosen folder.
I've found this not ony the easiest way to find things, as I have folders for photo editing, multimedia, office stuff, games & computer utilities. Not only does it make things easy to find but it de-clutters your desktop of Icons that are rarely used. Hope this helps.
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This is a screen shot of my desktop David which has all the photographic stuff on the RHS and everything else on the left. I suspect tho, that it is more to do with organisation of the 'interior' as it were that you are having difficulties with. I did too at first but I think, if you stick with it, you will understand it very quickly. There is an 'address' at the top of your screen which helps you to understand the way it is organised.
RAW tutorial http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/article/83/146826
Processing Photos tutorial http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/article/83/147565
Be what you are, say what you feel, 'cos those that mind don't matter, and those that matter don't mind.
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Many thanks for constructive/sympathetic replies. I will investigate others' suggestions.
What I have found is that adding the word "photo" to start menu shortcuts then allows one to use the search box with "photo" evoking a full-page list of programs from the offering of "programs". I came up with that idea yesterday.
David M.
I used to be a teacher. Some [correctly] observe that I did not teach "Photography"!
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Brilliant - so hope you are getting used to it!
RAW tutorial http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/article/83/146826
Processing Photos tutorial http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/article/83/147565
Be what you are, say what you feel, 'cos those that mind don't matter, and those that matter don't mind.
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An alternative is to create a folder with a short name (e.g. tb (for toolbar)). Put short cuts to the programs that you need into the folder. Right-click on the taskbar (at the bottom of the screen), select Toolbars and then New Toolbar... Browse to the folder that you created and then press OK. The new toolbar should appear to the left of the system tray. Left-click on the >> icon and then left-click on the program you want to run.
You can add more programs to the toolbar folder whenever you need to.
You can have more than one such toolbar and give them appropriate names (e.g. Camera etc). Then you can have a nearly clear desktop rather than one cluttered with lots of icons. In addition you don't have to minimise everything else (or use the Show Desktop button) to start another program as you would using desktop icons.
(I use W7 at work but XP here at home - the instructions are therefore for XP and so may differ slightly for W7 but the principal works)
Richard
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I offer a summary [which might help others].
Angie D has a tidy desktop. However, I sought to move even further for family users . I have a "signature" now [GEEB will be smiling IF there is another life. That respected lady will understand my comment, if nobody else does].
Putting together what Nige Jones & Richard McLean suggested is what I have done. It works very well! The intention is for use of this revamped tower machine not just by me.
Suggested link from barry14 is brill! It leads one to CSMenu v.1.2 and then to www.tordex.com for TrueLaunchBar. Both apx. US$20 to purchase a 1 machine licence. [Free] Start Killer v.3 or v.3.1 [full 32/64 bit] is needed for that.
David M.
[P.S. I might change my "signature" to "I seek to contribute but also to learn". Any good? Yo! I have voice recognition back on this machine!].
I used to be a teacher. Some [correctly] observe that I did not teach "Photography"!