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How can I make Win98 menus cascade?

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by twessell

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With many programs installed on a Windows 98 machine, the Programs Menu scrolls instead of cascading like Windows 95 did. Is there a way to change this to the cascading menus? There must be a registry key that controls this, but I have not been ableto find it.

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by syscokid

I found the following info at http://registry.winguides.com/

"Go to
http://www.aumha.org/index.htm

From here, you can download a patch which will restore the Windows 95 Start Menu style to Windows 98 PCs by adding a checkbox to Explorer's View | Folder Options | View tab. Internet Explorer 5.x must be installed for this Registry edit to work. Do not apply this Registry edit to Windows 95 PCs.

After applying the Registry edit, open Windows Explorer and select View, then Folder Options, then the View tab.
Scroll down to the entry "Multi-Column Start Menu Style" and place a check in the box beside it. Click Apply. Click OK.
Un-checking the box, or pressing Restore Defaults, will put your Start Menu back to the Windows 98 (or Internet Explorer 4) style after Clicking Apply and then OK."

I did verify that the file exists but I didn't try it because I'm on NT not 98 today.

(Sometimes when I cut and paste URL's it looks ok to me but once the answer is posted, an extraneousspace will have crept in. Make sure you delete any extraneous spaces or the page won't load).

by syscokid

Just for fun here's the contents of the file:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Advanced\Folder\StartMenuScrollPrograms]
"Type"="checkbox"
"Text"="Multi-Column Start Menu Style"
"HKeyRoot"=dword:80000001
"RegPath"="Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced"
"ValueName"="StartMenuScrollPrograms"
"CheckedValue"="false"
"UncheckedValue"="true"
"DefaultValue"="true"
"HelpID"="update.hlp"

by twessell

While I didn't use your exact answer, the link you provided to the registry guide was what I needed. I found that in the registry key [Hkey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] you can simply add a string value named "StartMenuScrollPrograms" and set it's value to "yes" or "no" to control the scroll vs cascade option.

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