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From: "Robert Comer" 

> The XP Start menu does quite a nice job of showing frequently-used apps,
> and is configurable to, for example, "pin" Command Prompt to the main
> menu. You can right-click the menu items for useful functions.

I run too many apps for the most recently used apps to be of any use, and you
can put items in the classic start menu even easier than "Pin"ing
them there,
just drag an icon to the start menu button.

I'll take the classic menus even though I never really liked them either.

--
Bob Comer





"John Beckett"  wrote in message
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> Gary Britt  wrote in message
> news::
>> What is the advantage of the XP luna start menu over classic start menu?
>
> I might have used incorrect terminology. Like any sane person, I hate
> themes that put large, inscrutable icons everywhere. By
"classic", I meant
> the config change that reverts the Start menu back to how it was in
> Win2000 - no recently-used apps or pinned apps, and no access to Control
> Panel via a menu.
>
> The XP Start menu does quite a nice job of showing frequently-used apps,
> and is configurable to, for example, "pin" Command Prompt to the main
> menu. You can right-click the menu items for useful functions.
>
> Actually, I forget what you could not do in Win2000, I just know that
> whereas the new XP Start menu was just as shocking to me as it was to
> everyone else, I now find the Win2000 menu (when I rarely come across it)
> to be less useful ... although I can't quite remember all its slight
> issues.
>
> John
>

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