Windows XP's Start menu contains a listing of operating system-specific programs as well as business and third-party programs you have installed on your office computer.

By the time Windows XP debuted, the Start Menu was in need of a makeover, in looks if nothing else. Microsoft substantially revamped it, providing two columns and more customization options.

Microsoft has agreed to reposition a program in the Windows XP start menu, allowing users to more easily set non-Microsoft software as their default choices, as part of the company’s antitrust ...

Windows only: If you have a system search tool you prefer over Windows XP's default—the Hive Five on the topic would indicate many of you do—RerouteXPSearch makes your Start menu use that app.

Windows XP users: "My Recent Documents," the portion of your Start menu that probably goes completely unused and exposes your porn collection recent documents to anyone with access to your ...

If you right click on any FOLDER in the Windows XP Start Menu, you don't have the 'copy' and 'cut' options like you do in Windows 9x/Me Start Menus.<br><br>Does anybody know how to add 'copy' and ...

Gkuep1945 used to edit the Start Menu from inside XP’s Windows Explorer, and now asks the Answer Line forum how to do that in Windows 7.. If you’re doing major work on the Start Menu–moving ...

The main difference between the XP start menu and the one in Windows 10 is text, or the lack of it. Windows 10 seems to assume you’re either an idiot or you don’t speak English.

Windows XP, Vista and 7: Microsoft redesigned the Start menu in 2001 (below) -- adding a second column of quick locations. It included an avatar and allowed people to pin their most-used or ...

It quickly became the go-to menu to find everything you needed from your PC, and it changed very little until the blue-and-green theme of Windows XP. The Start menu became so intertwined with the ...