What’s In Your Start Menu?
April 21, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
The b5 Tech Channel is having a little them post series and I thought of something that might be pretty interesting to share with everyone and we’ll get some responses back in the comments as well.
What’s in your Start Menu?
You’ve got the ability to pin a program you use frequently to your Start Menu so it’s readily available as soon as you need it right? The question is, what did you pin up there? Are you the type of person that keeps it simple and sparse, or do you load everything up there?
As you can see from my screen shot there to the right, I’ve got a few different programs arranged. Most of them are organized by usage group and frequency of use. Most frequently used programs are closer to the bottom.
Here’s what I’ve got going:
- IIS 6.0 Manager
- Viewpoint
- Crystal Reports 9
- Outlook 2007
- Word 2007
- Excel 2007
- Firefox
- Dreamweaver 8
- Fireworks MX 2004
- IrfanView 4.0
- SnagIt 8.0
- TextPad
- SQL Management Studio 2005
- Windows Live Writer
- Visual Web Developer Express 2008
- Skype
What do you have in your Start Menu? What could you not live without?
I must say I use the Win+R (Run command prompt) a lot. So winword, excel, visio, cmd, powerpt, notepad, winamp, mplayer2 are all just a couple clicks away.
On my start menu, I have apps that dont have easy exe’s I can type – eg., Irfanview, Office VPN, doc & design tmplates, yahoo music, and other such apps. Working of a handheld so can’t get a screenshot in here, but this hopefully provides a good overview.
Hmmm, I guess I need a new computer. Mine would go on it’s knees just running half of those apps.
Happy to see Snagit on the list ;-)