Microsoft has done a fair amount of reorganization and fine tuning on Vista's Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog box. Of course, it makes sense that being a new operating system, Windows Vista's ...

Windows only: Vista Start Menu offers an expanded, feature-rich Start menu for Windows 2000/XP or Vista, one in which program menus, power-off options, and a number of control panel items are ...

The Lockergnome weblog details how to speed up your Vista start menu search by selectively enabling how deep your search goes. For example, the author notes that if you're only really interested in ...

Evening All,<BR><BR>I've a friends' computer with a strange issue.<BR><BR>Problem: On the Vista Start Menu, under the "All Programs" 'switch' - the majority of the Program folders have disappeared.

Just ask anyone who’s seen Spiderman 3: Good ideas seldom survive bad execution. The developers at Microsoft had some great ideas while designing Vista, but poor implementation turned many of those ...

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This is weird. For reasons I don't know, a mystery "Documents" folder would pop up on my desktop from time to time. I don't know how it ended up there (maybe I dragged it there once.) I would delete ...

If you’re someone who uses the native Vista Start menu and find that it can drive you a bit nuts, you might want to take a look at this. VistaStartMenu is an add-on that arranges things in a little ...