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Where are my programs?

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by youngturk

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Windows 2000 Professional:

Well I guess everyone has point to start, programs to find that only some of your programs install on your machine are displayed. But if you hover over the down arrow or click on it or I think even wait for a sec, up comes all your programs. Now one of my users ask; is there a way for that arrow not show up at all and just display all your programs at once? I've seen this also on every application pull down menus eg. Word, Excel and Outlook. I'm assuming this is not an application issue but more a Windows 2000 issue. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance
youngturk

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by dklippert

Click on the Start button and then choose Settings> Taskbar & Start Menu and remove the check mark from "Use Personalized Menus".

by youngturk

This is short and sweet and precise. It worked great. Just to let everyone know that for the Office suite apps. you can open any one, lets use word. Open Word, click on Tools, Customize, Options tab, and UNCHECK "Menus show recently used commands first". That should do it for Office.

Thanks Doug
youngturk

by mrsimonduffy

If you right click on the toolbat you can get full menu's to come up by changing settings, win2k will only usually display most used programs when first installed

by billc124

Here is the answer you are looking for. Click On Start, Settings, Taskbar and Start Menu, Click on the Advanced Tab. In the Start Menu Settings Section, the Last Item is Scroll the Start Menu, remove the check and the start menu will be like it is in Windows 95. Also, remove the Use Personalized Menus as I think this is what hides items on the start menu that you do not use all the time. I personally think this is a great feature, but this is personal preference. I am not sure how this will effect office Apps.

Hope this helps.

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