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Post New Requests Here / Idea: Multiple Start menus
« on: July 29, 2007, 04:16 PM »
Finding stuff on the start menu is a pain, especially for people with a couple of pages of stuff.  I thought that if you could access several start menus with say Ctrl+Winkey, Shift+Winkey, Alt+Winkey, you could have different types of software organized into easily scanned groupings - preferably with the programs starting by pressing a hotkey - say the first letter of the name of the program, or a definable letter in the name of the program.  Windows98 used to have the option of using the "&" in the name of the program to define the hotkey of your choice to launch a program.  I know that this competes with FARR, but I find that I don't always remember the name of the program that I want to run, so a browsable menu suits me better.  It also appeals to the neat freak in me. 8)

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Great Software List
« on: July 12, 2007, 11:37 PM »
For screen capture/flash tutorial production look at Wink-  http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ (free) - easy to learn and nice interface, if a bit basic.  There are also a number of free apps available from Mike Lin - http://www.mlin.net/index.shtml (startup control panel, path to clipboard, utility that pops up when installers try to add startup processes and a host of others). 

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Sorry, I misspoke.   I meant that the folder that you get on the top level of the Start menu opens into an explorer folder window when you open it and that ends the use of keystrokes.  After that you have a window with shortcut icons in it and you have to mouse over to the one you want and click it - hardly an efficiency.

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One thing that seems to be forgotten is that the start menu can be navigated with keystrokes PROVIDED there is only one entry that starts with the letter/keystroke that you use.  For instance, you can type {winkey}, e and if you have your email named Email and there are no other entries that start with "e" and you have just launched your email program.  Similarly, {winkey}, p, o, e would start Excel on my system.  P opens the "Programs" menu, "o" opens the "Office" Menu and e launches Excel.  You have to rename a bunch of entries to eliminate duplication of starting letters - My Documents became Filing Cabinet and My Pictures became Art - but it is doable.  You also have to set the number of "Recent Programs" to zero, since the random appearance of unknowable names on the start menu messes up the whole scheme.  I have also set a number of commonly used programs on the "Pinned" menu with numbers in front of their names, so {winkey},2 opens nero burning.  The entry on the start menu is: 2. Nero Startsmart, so the 2, being the first "letter" of the name launches the program connected to it.  The Programs menu has the following categories on it: Accessories, Burning Tools, CyberSecurity, Disaster Recovery, File Utilities, Graphics, HP Utilities, Information tools, Lens and Shutter, Maintenance, Net Wares, Office, Printer Utilities, Reference, Utilities Misc., WordPerfect Office, and, of course, Startup.  As you can see, there is only one entry for any given letter of the alphabet, so you can use the keyboard to navigate it.  The sub-menus have also been similarly renamed to allow keyboard launch - with a few exceptions.  In the case of unavoidable duplications, you can press the letter repeatedly until you are on the desired entry and then press "enter". 
The most irritating thing about the whole process is that Microsloth had a way of customizing the Start menu in Win98 and has deleted that from the current version.  They also have made it impossible to add self-opening folders to the top level of the Start menu.  You can't pin a folder of "Office" icons to the front of the menu - it has to go into the "Programs" menu!  But, even so, it is possible to wring some use out of the thing.

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Since a lot of spam comes from hijacked computers, complaints may not do you any good and if there is a real spammer receiving the complaint, they may take a complaint as validation of your email address and then you will get MORE spam.  Illegal? Spammers don't care.

I would like to see an implementation of a spam filter rule that compares the friendly name from the header with user-defined match words.  The spammers don't have most people's names, so you get a blank friendly name. If the filter defined all address book entries and non-"Deleted Items" and "Spam" folder entries as Friends and passed emails with blank friendly names to a spam folder, you would deal with 99+% of the spam.  With a rt-click menu entry that adds the sender of mis-identified spam to the friends list, you can catch the customer service type emails that often get caught in your ISP's filters by setting their spam rules looser and filtering on your email client.  Ideally the filter would delete Spam folder items older than a definable number of days.  Oddly enough, I have never seen this simple approach used.  It should code with a small footprint and ideally be available as a plug-in.

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