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Author Topic: JetStart Launcher  (Read 6967 times)

chrisa52

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JetStart Launcher
« on: November 20, 2008, 10:23 AM »
Just ran across this on one of the places I track.

JetStart has both a freeware and Pro version. Looks like an excellent program to help handle your Start Menu becoming unmanageable.

Anyone have any experience with it?

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cmpm

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Re: JetStart Launcher
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2008, 11:05 AM »
Be careful, you may not be able to get your start menu back the way it was before you used JetStart. If you don't like it.

I tried one just like this, in fact it looks exactly the same.
Once it changed the start menu it could not be undone.
I manually fixed it, and that took a while.

chrisa52

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Re: JetStart Launcher
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2008, 07:08 PM »
Good to know, thanks.
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Re: JetStart Launcher
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2008, 10:10 AM »
That site that you mentioned chrisa52 couldn't have been the blog that i have right?  ;D anyway i just uninstalled jetstart and my start menu is just fine so you shouldn't have any problems.
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Re: JetStart Launcher
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2008, 10:55 AM »
hi gexecuter,

it looked a lot like this program
http://www.tidystartmenu.com/index.shtml
which i had trouble with
therefore the word of caution

glad this one will uninstall properly
'tidy' does not-
or didn't then when i tried it
it could be improved by now, i don't know

And thanks for your blog.
I subscribe to it and you pick some great programs.

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Re: JetStart Launcher
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2008, 10:07 PM »
I used to use JetStart a while back, but stopped because it crashed a bit too often; except for that, I liked it pretty well.  That was a while ago, so those problems might be resolved by now.  I don't recall having any problem uninstalling it.