Monday, February 27, 2006
Obtain More Start Menu Space
If you have tons of programs you use on your PC on a daily basis, you may want to have a little extra room in your start menu for quick access. To do this, you can remove the "Frequently Used Programs" list from the start menu completely. This will open up that big white space on the left that you see when you click your start menu. To do this:
1.) Go to "Start-->Run" and in the command prompt, enter "Regedit" and hit "OK".
2.) When this opens, navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer"
3.) Create a new DWORD value by right-clicking in the window to the right and call it "NoStartMenuMFUprogramsList".
4.) Right-click on this new DWORD and click "Modify". In the "Value" box, change the 0 to a 1 and hit Enter.
5.) Reboot the computer and you're all set.
After doing this, you can add your own shortcuts to the list by dragging and dropping them into the Start Menu where you please.
