How to change the start menu in Windows XP. You can customize your start menu from the Control Panel. Here, you can change icon size, number of programs listed etc. About Sidratul Muntaha. Questions 1. Answers The number here refers to the lower-left column of the Start menu, the one that lists programs used most often. By increasing this number, you make the Start menu taller—but you ensure that more of your favorite programs are listed and ready to launch.
Show on Start menu. Use these checkboxes and drop-down menus to specify whether or not you want your Web browser and email program listed at the top of the left-hand Start menu column—and if so, which ones. Microsoft may call these options Advanced, but they affect the Start menu in some fairly simple and profound ways. Figure You now get a submenu that lists each program in the Control Panel folder.
By clicking one, you can open it directly. This feature saves you the trouble of opening a folder window such as Control Panel or My Documents , double-clicking an icon inside it, and then closing the window again. Open submenus when I pause on them with my mouse. Highlight newly installed programs. Whenever you or some techie in the building install a new program into the Start menu, it shows up with orange highlighting for a few days.
The idea, of course, is to grab your attention and make you aware of your expanded software suite. If you could do without this kind of reminder, then just turn off this checkbox. Some are the same options described on these pages.
The rest either control which commands are listed in the menu checkboxes beginning with the word Display or turn certain commands into submenus checkboxes beginning with the word Expand.
This is a very handy feature when applied to the Control Panel, for example. Finally, note the option called Use Personalized Menus.
When this checkbox is turned on, Windows watches you and studies your behavior that is, even more than usual. Some people find it disconcerting that Personalized Menus changes the Start menu frequently, making it difficult to get used to the positions of familiar items.
Enable dragging and dropping. Turning on this checkbox has two benefits. First, it lets you customize your Start menu just by dragging icons onto it, as described in the next section. Second, it lets you right-click Start menu items, which produces a useful shortcut menu containing commands like Rename, Properties, and Remove from This List.
If this checkbox is turned off, right-clicking Start menu items has no effect. Favorites menu. This option adds a Favorites command to the Start menu that lists your favorite Web sites and icons files, folders, and so on.
Thereafter, you can use the Start menu to launch Internet Explorer and travel directly to the selected site. Help and Support, Run command, Search. These checkboxes govern the appearance of the corresponding commands in the Start menu. Network Connections. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter brian Start date Mar 1, Status Not open for further replies. For the XP-style start menu, see the bottom of this post. I don't know if this has been posted anywhere before.
Proceed to step 2 of next part If you have an icon file in mind already: 1. Open the icon file in ArtIcons Pro 2. On the right hand size, you will see a column with at least 1 image and text next to it, e. Make note of the dimensions and color depths of each one. You will need to make 1 of each of these: 48x48 32bpp 32x32 32bpp 16x16 32bpp 48x48 16M 32x32 16M 16x16 16M 48x48 32x32 16x16 48x48 16 32x32 16 16x16 16 That's a total of Check which ones you will need.
If you need 48x48's, and you already have a 48x48, right click that one, and go to duplicate. Repeat as many times as you need. It's the same thing for 32x32 and 16x If all you have is 1 size, or just 1 icon on the right, then just right click it and duplicate as many times as you need for a total of Then, right click each icon individually except the ones that you already had in the file and click Convert.
Now, save the icon file, and exit ArtIcons Pro 6. You can always restore the default names by following the same procedure. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Site Notice Privacy Policy. Renaming Start Menu Items in Windows 10 In order to rename the Start menu items in Windows 10, you will need to perform the following steps: Click on the Windows icon located at the extreme left of the taskbar in order to launch the Start menu.
The Start menu is shown in the following image: Right click on any of the Start menu items that you want to rename.
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