Windows 7 has a new All Programs section on the Start Menu. This section contains all of your current programs, including programs you have installed from the Windows Update Catalog. To use this new All Programs section, open the Start Menu and click on the All Programs button. Then, under the All Programs heading, click on the New Program button. In the new program window, you will be asked to name your new program. You can call your new program anything you like, but make sure it is unique and easy to remember. Next, you will be asked to enter a location for your new program. You can either enter a location for your program in the text field or you can click on the Browse button and select a location for your program in one of our online repositories. When you have finished entering information for your new program, click on the OK button to create your new program and start it up.
Is your Start menu getting so cluttered you can’t find anything? The All Programs section of the Start menu may be in alphabetical order (sometimes by company names rather than program names), but would you rather have it categorized?
There is an easy way to organize the All Programs section of the Start menu without using third-party software. To manually organize your Start menu, click on the Start orb, right-click on All Programs and select Open from the popup menu. This opens the folder containing program shortcuts for the currently logged in user only.
If you want to open the folder containing program shortcuts for all users, select Open All Users from the popup menu. We recommend you open both folders because the All Programs section of the Start menu is created from the shortcuts in both folders.
The Programs folder contains all the shortcuts listed when you select All Programs on the Start menu. Open the Programs folder for both the current user and for all users. To organize the shortcuts, copy and move existing shortcuts, delete shortcuts and folders and add new shortcuts as desired. You can create new folders in the Programs folder for categories, such as Office, Graphics, Browsers, etc. and put your shortcuts into these folders.
Here’s our Start menu categorized and sorted alphabetically automatically within each category (or folder).
It’s much easier to find programs on an organized Start menu. As you install programs, just repeat this process to categorize the new programs and keep your Start menu clean and organized.
