Comments on: What’s on your Start menu?

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Ed, I noticed on your list of programs on your start menu you have Microsoft Money. I am new to Money and was wondering if you know of any web sites or blogs that contains help, tips, and faq on Money. Thanks

My Start Menu:

I pinned all my Office programs and the rest are:

1. AOL Instant Messenger – keep in touch with the kids in school
2. Solitaire – ok, no comments
3. Money – learning and I am financially organized this time in my life. I guess that is what happens to you when kids go to college…FAFSA
4. Firefox – I think I should pin this
5. Shutdown shortcut tip
6. Adobe Photoshop

I also have quite few programs on my Quick launch toolbar

Tom

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

On this computer (including the two pinned items):

Diskeeper
Adobe Reader
Command Prompt
Internet Explorer
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Word
Task Manager
Disk Cleanup

I’m boring. Okay, this is a work computer.

By: Johan

Johan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

From my main computer at home. Including pinned.

Firefox
mIRC
KeePass Password Safe
Windows Media Player
cmd
FeedDemon
Steam
CDisplay
SmartFTP
Reflector

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Mine isnt very exciting. From top to bottom (ignoring IE and Outlook 2003 that are pinned at the top) I have
Photoshop 7
itunes (i listen to a lot of radio while working but usually use Media Player so odd that this is here)
Dreamweaver
ADAware SE Personal
MSN Messenger 7 (I chat a lot)
Disk Cleanup (only here as I just used it I guess)

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

This is my new Lattitude D610 from work’s list. I have Firefox and Groupwise pinned. Then the six are:

I.E.
Command Prompt
WinRAR
Tivoli Storage Manager GUI client
Microsoft Word
VMWare Workstation

Those are a tad distorted by the fact it’s four days old.

By: Zaine Ridling

Zaine Ridling — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

SyncToy is so clever!

WinRAR
AutoHotkey
Microsoft Word 2003
Microsoft OneNote 2003
XNews

By: BenN

BenN — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

MSN Messenger – switching between the PC and laptop I don’t like it autostarting
Notepad – Gotta be the best thing for writing web pages in
Solitaire – For when I’m playing games and watching videos at the same time
Spider Solitaire – ditto, but a change from the norm
Media Center – TV!
Media Player – My favourites list is on repeat, so once this is open it stays open.

By: pillguy

pillguy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Nothing! I run OS X.

But seriously, in my Dock:
Safari, iPhoto, IMovie, iDVD, Terminal, Activity Monitor, iChatAV, Conversation (IRC client), Address book, iCal, Pages, Keynote, Fireworks, iTunes, BBEdit, Flash, Transmit FTP, Azureus BT, Disk Utility. Truthfully, most of the time I just Spotlight the program I want. It is as fast as moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen.

By: drew

drew — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

XP Pro…

Firefox
Outlook
Command Prompt
Windows Explorer
Photoshop CS
—
Notepad
Diskeeper
CDex
Adobe Audition 1.5
Santa Cruz Control Panel
Symantec AntiVirus
foobar2000
Windows Media Player
Nero Express
EAC
CD Wave Editor
ShellExView
Soulseek
Windows Update
FLAC Frontend

and on the ol’ QuickLaunch:
Windows Explorer (My Computer as root)
Command Prompt
Run… (shortcut to Run box)
regedit
iTunes
Outlook
Firefox

I do a bit of audio work as you probably can tell… I also increased the number of programs on the MFU list (start panel is big, but with small icons it’s manageable). I don’t know how I lived with the old-style start menu – it’s so much easier using the most frequently used stuff off the start panel!

drew

By: Feets

Feets — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I use the quicklaunch bar for everything that I use frequently and those aren’t counted towards promoting shortcuts to the start menu’s “front page.” As a result, my start menu shows programs that are semi-frequently used, but not enough to warrant a spot on the quicklaunch bar.

By: Neil's World

Neil's World — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

What’s on your Start Menu?

In Windows XP, Windows lists your most frequently/recently used programs on the left-hand side. Ed Bott picked up the meme baton so I’m continuing it here.

By: Stupid Evil Bastard

Stupid Evil Bastard — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

What's on my Start menu?

I don't know why anyone would really care what the hell is on my Start menu in Windows XP, but Neil did it so I'm replicating the meme because I wanted to. This is listed in sequence from top to bottom minus the preset Firefox and Thunderb...

By: Is there a PC Doctor in the house?

Is there a PC Doctor in the house? — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

What’s on your Start menu?

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