The Start menu certainly boasts certain advantages over the Start screen, but one major disadvantage is the way the folders and shortcuts for all your programs easily become disorganized.

Miss the way Windows XP would show all your installed software in one big list? Here are two ways to restore that capability in Windows 7.

You can easily configure the Windows 7 Start menu, changing the look and putting your favorite programs front and center.

HOW DO YOU organize the 'All Programs' menu in WinXP??? I'd like to organize the growing collection of program files into categorized sub-folders. I was previously able to do this at will since ...

Move all your utility programs into the Utilities folder. You can easily do this in the Open Shell menu by dragging and dropping a shortcut into the appropriate folder.

The Start menu is set to reappear in a future version of Windows. What can Microsoft do to make it more efficient and easier to organize?

Windows 7 All Programs Menu The All Programs menu displays the installed applications in a similar hierarchy as the Explorer file manager.

The All Programs link (Figure 5) brings back a bit of nostalgia, with fully customizable, nested menu items. The entries in the All Programs menu have all the smarts they had in Windows 7.

The subject is the problem: at some point in the past, my Start > All Programs menu (WinXP, obviously) began displaying all the items in my profile directory (Desktop, Start Menu, UserData ...