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PART I
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INSTALLATION, CONFIGURATION, AND CUSTOMIZATION
Figure 3.16. Windows Explorer is the fastest, easiest way to rearrange or delete Start menu items.
With the Classic view, you are given a wizard to create or remove new
folders and shortcuts. In the Classic view, right-click Start, click Properties,
and then click the Customize button. At the top of the Customize dialog box
are the Add and Remove buttons that walk you through the steps needed to,
well, add or remove items in the Start menu. This wizard works its magic only
on the logged-on user’s own folders, not the All Users folder. To do that, or
to move things around, click the Advanced button. This launches Windows
Explorer, focused on the user’s folders, but you can browse up and down the
folder list and work with menu items normally.
Note that Windows places the Sort function on this menu, rather than as
a right-click menu option (see Figure 3.17). This button also sorts the Start
menu recursively. There’s probably a reason Microsoft flip-flopped the sort-
ing behavior between the menu versions, but it seems counterintuitive to
take away functionality that was perfectly decent in a previous release.
Watch Out!
If you shuffle icons around, you may make some programs go “invisible” to other
users. Feel free to move icons within a particular user’s directory, including the All
Users one, but be careful moving icons from a user to All Users and from All Users
to a specific user.
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