Expanding windows start menu...

[PCJim]

My program menu is getting terribly long. Does anyone know a fix to get the start menu to "fly-out" instead of scrolling?

Hopefuly I'm not to vauge.

[reghakr]

Simon's got it listed here in the Registry Guide:

<a target="_blank" href=http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/515/>Enable Start Menu Scrolling</a>

To get real fancy:
Open Notepad and copy and paste the following between the lines and save the file as scroll.reg. Double-click on the file to merge the contents into the registry.
It adds a checkbox under View&gt;FolderOptions&gt;View
==========BEGIN CUT=============
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer\Advanced\Folder\StartMenuScrol lPrograms]
"Type"="checkbox"
"Text"="Multi-Column Start Menu"
"HKeyRoot"=dword:80000001
"RegPath"="Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Expl orer\\Advanced"
"ValueName"="StartMenuScrollPrograms"
"CheckedValue"=dword:00000000
"UncheckedValue"=dword:00000001
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000000
"HelpID"="update.hlp"
========END CUT============

reghakr

[coolsights2000]

Hey that worked great on win98SE IE 6.0

Decreased my start menu program display time

Is there one for the favorites folder to... I want to
decrease its display time to.. The only solution
that I have found on the net is do it with folders
so when you scroll up passed the favorites folder
going to programs the system doesn't try to
make a long list and hesitate on the favorites
folder





Thanks
Mac!!!

This Is just my opinion
So if it stinks wait for another one
Cause I'm no expert

[reghakr]

Sorry coolsights, I haven't found that one yet, only a vb script that sorts the Start Menu and Favorites menu. It's from David Candy's site:

<a target="_blank" href=http://www.mvps.org/serenitymacros/>http://www.mvps.org/serenitymacros/</a>

reghakr

[coolsights2000]

I have not gotten into script that much yet but meshing with VB helped.. after I looked over the script ,,,all you have to do is delete folders(hives) you want sorted....

Also my start menu jams now the whole thing is faster after deleting the stuff in the registry.. it does rebuild in the registry I'll have to add this to the clean up

Thanks
Mac!!!

This Is just my opinion
So if it stinks wait for another one
Cause I'm no expert<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by coolsights2000 on 02/08/02 01:12.</FONT></P>

[coolsights2000]

You know how I'm always saying use the GUI to change stuff... Good thing you posted the sort page because I noticed the sort list was corruted in the registry after I moved the folders around using the file manager.... The sort list in the registry did not match the folders in the file manager... now it does....

Thanks
Mac!!!

This Is just my opinion
So if it stinks wait for another one
Cause I'm no expert

[reghakr]

coolsights,

GUI may be easier, but many are manual edit only. This is just how I taught myself.

Here's another key in the registry that gets out of hand if you install alot of programs, then create or move them to other folders on the start menu:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu\&Programs

I simply delete the &Porgrams key, then re-create it manually.

reghakr