You can consolidate your programs listing.

Click Start, point at All Programs, right click.  From the menu select
Explore.  An explorer window will show up showing you the main Programs
folder.  Go into Programs folder.   Now create category folders in which
you'll drag-and-drop program folders.  Examples would be Music Editing,
Photo Editing,  Browsers, etc.

Trust me, I'm a programmer.

2008/10/2 John Rodgers <inua@charter.net>

> Sorry for the NVC use of bandwidth here, but I'm sort of dumbed down
> this morning.
>
> I'm running WinXP on an Intel machine, and I have a problem. Hopefully
> you can help me out here.
>
> I have a huge load of active programs on my computer. I use the heck out
> of them. When I go to the START menu and call up the ALL PROGRAMS menu,
> I get this list of program icon links to choose from to open any given
> program.
>
> The problem I now have is that my list of icons is so large that WinXP
> puts them up in vertical panels and the number of panels extends across
> the screen and disappears under the edge of the screen to the right. I
> can't see all the panels and therefore the icons.
>
> Is there any way to fix this problem? Am I overlooking something simple?
> I have the resolution already set at the smallest comfortable size and
> still the icons are out of visual range. Surely there must be a better
> way around this problem rather than smaller resolution?
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Please respond off-list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>

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