Cleaning and organizing the Start menu in Windows 7, XP and Vista - video tutorial

Hi friends, today's tutorial we will talk about how the Start menu in Windows XP, Vista or 7 and how we organize applications in the Start menu to better use and a quicker release.
We all know that regardless of Windows version used in the Start menu to find all installation applications over time. If you have many applications installed then we certainly will have a very thick and ugly Start menu organized.
A tutorial today to learn how to organize it so that it is cleaner and better organized to allow us to find applications that we want to run the much more rapid.
The Windows Start menu is just a path to a hidden folder on the C drive is full of shortcuts to other folders alone executables of applications. I've seen many users that the comments box asking us how to launch an application if deleted shortcut on the desktop or the Start menu by it? No need to panic! It's very simple. As you probably know well, the applications are installed on the C: \ Program Files. In the folder Program Files folders will find all installed applications in our operating system. Once here, you just need to go into the folder that has the name of the application and find the executable that launches the application. Once identified executable, we right click on it and from the context menu choose Send to: and then Desktop (create shortcut). If I delete folders with application shortcuts from the Start menu or desktop, does not mean I uninstalled or deleted app icon only a few KB which double clicking on it (if it is on the desktop) or a single click (if is in the Start menu) we direct you to the application executable itself.
To accomplish what we wanted, we make visible the hidden files and folders and sail in C: \ ProgramData \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Start Menu.
At this point, we can create new folders you named after categories: Players, Converters, Browsers, Messaging, we can edit and copy them find shortcuts in Programs folder of the Start Menu folder. After we copied shortcuts in folders named after the category, we can delete the original folders that I copied the shortcuts menu and so we have a much cleaner and much more organized you will allow us to easily find the desired application without we lose the multitude of folders that is in the Start menu. Advantage for those with Windows XP will be that they will have a much smaller sub / compact when they go to the All Programs menu. That said, I invite you to watch the video tutorial to see exactly how to do to have a Start menu in Windows, be it XP, Vista or 7 much more organized and clean.

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Comments

  1. Microsoft should hire you give them one idea they make each operating system.
    Have a good day.

  2. I like it, you have talent man! By this you have won a reader, luck and how many items!.

  3. Adrian so much please do a tutorial on internet downloand beg manager is very interesting thanks!

  4. Hello, do you know any program that I do equalizer to songs and he converts them after all, no ?? I want to do this to her I adjust the bass, treble, but not at every single one audio recorder shoot them as deluxe wasting time if you know any program and present it to please

  5. A more useful tutorial for beginners. The most advanced overlook this tutorial. Anyway are all welcome.
    Good luck

  6. Super thank you very much since I've been waiting for a tutorial like this. I use windows 7. Thanks again

  7. Good evening, and I also have a question about a completely different topic how to make a subtritrare because desenuk animals found only in German and nubtritrare not found at all (Princess Sissi) cartoon film not

    • oana:
      Good evening, and I also have a question about a completely different topic how to make a subtritrare because desenuk animals found only in German and nubtritrare not found at all (Princess Sissi) cartoon film not
      ………………………………………………….
      “Copilut” Oana !, Romanian subtitles for Princess Sissi (TV Series 1997) You won't find it on subtitle sites yet, but if you really want to watch your favorite cartoon, subtitled in Romanian, you can watch it online for free. ”http://desenecopii.info/2011/03/07 / princess-sissi-episode-1-romana / ”Princess Sissi online. In addition to your favorite series, you will also find other cartoons that you may like.
      ………………………………………………….

  8. ziau videotutorial.ro good ... Does your amo .... I have a question for online radio listeners and are something .. the problem is I do not know how to run nonstop music without PC to work ... I want to know which are the most advantageous solutions free ... or if there would be ideal .... thank you very much

  9. Thanks again super datapentru everything you do.

  10. AdrianGudus said

    Prodan:
    ziau videotutorial.ro good ... Does your amo .... I have a question for online radio listeners and are something .. the problem is I do not know how to run nonstop music without PC to work ... I want to know which are the most advantageous solutions free ... or if there would be ideal .... thank you very much

    Sorry but we asked you to be on the subject when you post a comment. Your comment has nothing to do with this tutorial and its topic. Please look for the "create a radio station" tutorial with the search box at the top right and post your question there. If you post comments that are not related to the topic, your comment will be ignored!

  11. Why lately, I can not watch regular tutorials? (Last 3 months)
    At the beginning of the year, watch full screen at a time could no longer than the page, and now only the frame at frequent intervals of time (ie my images appear at long intervals, about 10 seconds, and the sound goes smoothly.'m already dozens of tutorials which I can not understand anything.
    I searched the whole computer for the problem:
    1 - I put the image backup - nothing
    2 - I did abdeituri to Flasf Player - nothing
    3 - In order to gain some resources, I disabled plugins in Mozilla Firefox, including the antivirus Avast (referred to as brauserul keep clean no tolbar bar to eat me and I Internet resources from RDS)
    4 - all software used, they function deactivated apdeit to resources you will not eat them.
    5 - run the tutorial alone without having any other application open - nothing
    6 - no temp files and even ChaCha does not have anything in it
    7 - defragmentation is the day
    8 - use the same software for years (I have had problems in the past because of them)
    9 - brauserul I do not use any kind of problems (Mozilla)
    10 - YouTube I have no problem watching videos, even in full screen.
    Please analyze this problem and tell me what I can do.
    How can I check how much RAM is used while running a tutorial.
    In Task Manager, firefox.exe indicate the Mem Usage 276,040 K

    • AdrianGudus said

      silviu:
      Why lately, I can not watch regular tutorials? (Last 3 months)
      At the beginning of the year, watch full screen at a time could no longer than the page, and now only the frame at frequent intervals of time (ie my images appear at long intervals, about 10 seconds, and the sound goes smoothly.'m already dozens of tutorials which I can not understand anything.
      I searched the whole computer for the problem:
      1 - I put the image backup - nothing
      2 - I did abdeituri to Flasf Player - nothing
      3 - In order to gain some resources, I disabled plugins in Mozilla Firefox, including the antivirus Avast (referred to as brauserul keep clean no tolbar bar to eat me and I Internet resources from RDS)
      4 - all software used, they function deactivated apdeit to resources you will not eat them.
      5 - run the tutorial alone without having any other application open - nothing
      6 - no temp files and even ChaCha does not have anything in it
      7 - defragmentation is the day
      8 - use the same software for years (I have had problems in the past because of them)
      9 - brauserul I do not use any kind of problems (Mozilla)
      10 - YouTube I have no problem watching videos, even in full screen.
      Please analyze this problem and tell me what I can do.
      How can I check how much RAM is used while running a tutorial.
      In Task Manager, firefox.exe indicate the Mem Usage 276,040 K

      Right click on any video, then choose Settings from the context menu in the window that appears and then uncheck Enable hardware acceleration. Then click Close and close and reopen your browser. Everything should be OK. If resolved, the fault is the flash player that hardware acceleration is enabled by default and you probably have an older video card that does not support it. More details about this topic you will find our blog blog.videotutorial.ro I wrote an article last invite you to read it http://blog.videotutorial.ro/ultimele/rezolvare-la-problema-vizionarii-clipurilor-de-pe-youtube/

  12. I have a problem until yesterday I played 4 levels in FEAR 3 and today I entered win8 beta on another hdd and when I restarted to boot after win7 the blue screen appeared and after I gave a startup repair and it repaired but after boot but when to appear welcome nothing appears all black than the mouse was going otherwise it froze everything and with win8 I entered and it only allowed me to enter ssd where it was win7 and it said D: is not aviable NTFS and after that I put acronis and I it shows that all the folders in C un e ssd were locked with locks, from where and to where I don't know, and I put windows in and now I have a problem with the game, it says to me: Sxstreaca.exe Side-in-Side configuration failed FEAR 3 please view log…. what is the problem of just going what to make them work?

  13. Asus@, probably, windows 8 broke. I also had it in dual boot with 7, and after 4 days, it broke, so I had to reinstall 7.

  14. Cristian T. said

    I liked how you explained in detail and with patience, as it should for those who were for explanations.
    Until recently I was working with XP and I was using a file with programs similarly ordered as you explained above, but not in the START menu but on the bottom bar - and I could expand this folder.
    My request is if you can change the Start menu as it was in XP.
    I prefer to have (and) that long list of all the programs in alphabetical order, but in that tiny box in Windows 7 but half the desktop, as it was in XP. If possible I would enjoy more. Thank you.

    • AdrianGudus said

      Cristian T.:
      I liked how you explained in detail and with patience, as it should for those who were for explanations.
      Until recently I was working with XP and using a file with programs arranged like how you explained above but but but not in the Start menu on the bottom bar - and I could have expanded this folder. My request is if you can change the Start menu as was the XP.Eu prefer to have (and) that long list of all the programs in alphabetical order, but in that tiny box in Windows 7 but half the desktop, as was in XP. If possible I would enjoy more. Thank you.

      It's simple, it works just like in XP. I hope that's what you mean, look here: http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cX6U2COSg

    • Cristian T.:
      I liked how you explained in detail and with patience, as it should for those who were for explanations.
      Until recently I was working with XP and using a file with programs arranged like how you explained above but but but not in the Start menu on the bottom bar - and I could have expanded this folder. My request is if you can change the Start menu as was the XP.Eu prefer to have (and) that long list of all the programs in alphabetical order, but in that tiny box in Windows 7 but half the desktop, as was in XP. If possible I would enjoy more. Thank you.

      ………………………………………………….
      Copy to google.ro exactly like I put myself in brackets
      [How to make a classic Start menu in Windows XP with Classic Shell 7]
      ………………………………………………….

  15. Cristian T. said

    Thanks so much for your prompt response. I have recently discovered, but would be delighted by how professional and friendly so we approach things.
    The vast majority of those who use a computer are in need of a prompt and competent advice.
    I, for example with Windows 7 hard making friends, have made many changes for the worse (probably just to be different from XP). I refer in particular to the Explorer. In conjunction with the Start menu, All Programs sorry that bothers me is not right, it can be expanded over the height of the screen and possibly expansion program files. I wish I can bring more to the classic form of XP. If you can that would be formidable!
    Thanks for the article and for helping us so much.

    • AdrianGudus said

      Cristian T.:
      Thanks so much for your prompt response. I have recently discovered, but would be delighted by how professional and friendly so we approach things. The vast majority of those who use a computer are in need of a prompt and competent advice. I, for example with Windows 7 hard making friends, have made many changes for the worse (probably just to be different from XP). I refer in particular to Explorer.In Contact Start menu, All Programs sorry that bothers me is not right, it can be expanded over the height of the screen and possibly expansion program files. I wish I can bring more to the classic form of XP. If you can that would be formidable! Thanks for the article and for helping us so much.

      A tutorial has been posted on this topic

    • Cristian T.:
      Thanks so much for your prompt response. I have recently discovered, but would be delighted by how professional and friendly so we approach things. The vast majority of those who use a computer are in need of a prompt and competent advice. I, for example with Windows 7 hard making friends, have made many changes for the worse (probably just to be different from XP). I refer in particular to Explorer.In Contact Start menu, All Programs sorry that bothers me is not right, it can be expanded over the height of the screen and possibly expansion program files. I wish I can bring more to the classic form of XP. If you can that would be formidable! Thanks for the article and for helping us so much.

      See what interests you: "How to turn the Windows 7 interface into Windows XP - video tutorial"
      https://www.videotutorial.ro/?p=7508

  16. Adrian I deleted an exe and mia intiplator separated from the taskbar icon from the keyboard and language and for example if you write the note can not switch to the language when pressing Alt-Shift, can you help me as I wiped exe to put them back as I put my virtual Windows box and I take them there exe then put them on the bottles and gave them my real children windows.

  17. ciao! I visit this site very often and I came to the conclusion that it is not good to make too many changes to windows. sooner or later it creates problems. my advice is to leave windows as it is… original and with few personal modifications. anyway congratulations videotutorial.ro… .I learned a lot from you. thank you in advance!

    • COSTY999:

      @ COSTY999
      If you sit at your computer look like holy icons, you have to learn much. Put a virtual machine (have boys tutorial on the site) and do whatever you want your muschiu.

  18. Thanks for the tutorials and keep up the good work will not help us here imagine how vb everyone who enters the tutoriale.ro.
    By the way how to make the horse go faster although I have no game installed, please give me some advice to increase processor speed or video card. Waiting for a response from you.
    Thank you

  19. hi i like your site very much

  20. I have a big problem with your pc and so much please help me.
    when I want to open a program and the VLC appears to me shows me that I have to go in 30 seconds
    I uninstalled VLC and now I run would occur in any open
    what can I do?

  21. Hey, what theme are you using? Could you give me the link please.

  22. Adrian Gudus said

    Bogdan:
    Hey, what theme are you using? Could you give me the link please.

    If you were a little smart you would have noticed the icon on the Desktop called "CustoPack Tool". All you had to do was type in the SEARCH box in the top right sidebar: "CustoPack" press Enter and find the tutorial.
    To get to the tutorial faster, also in the SEARCH box it says like this: "CustoPack, the best program for customizing Windows 7, Vista and XP" press Enter and see the tutorial

  23. After I open the "start menu" and press "search" I find a search companion (with the puppy) but without anything inside "search" is white or rather blue.
    I installed, in turn, "start menu X" and "start menu for window 8" but in vain: "search" does not work.
    What advice would you give me?

  24. Good morning,
    I entered the intel hd graphics 4600 settings and the icons are only visible on half of the screen….
    The resolution is the same 1920 1080 *
    Windows OS 7
    Can you help me please?

  25. Please tell me how to restore the original height table in your Windows start menu XP.Am tried to reach edges and fail, opening occurs at ptr. Information seconds, but in English I do not know. With thanks!

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