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Article: Slim down your Start menu. (windows 9x).
- Article from:
- Australian PC World
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
- Author:
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If you regularly scroll through dozens of items on your Start menu every time you open a program, maybe you should think about putting the menu on a diet.
Two prime candidates for deletion from the Start menu are your Favorites and Documents menus. Chances are you only access your Favorites menu from your browser or folder windows. And you probably rarely use your Documents menu.
Unfortunately, Windows 9x doesn't offer an easy way to remove its built-in menu items, but you can delete some of them by editing the Windows Registry. Messing with Registry settings is risky, however, so be sure to back up your system.dat and user.dat Registry files before ...