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[scuzzy]

Excellent tip. I appreciate you poasting that, Neon. Having to scroll the Win98 menus is a pain. Hooray for PC World.



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[n/a]

Man, that is a good one. Finally took time to try it today and it works like a charm--wham, two columns, no scrolling. Thanks, Neon.







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        --Bear

[Neon]

This is taken from PCWorld's Answer Line April 2000 issue. It is simple to do. Heck, I tried it, and it works great!



Q. In Windows 95, the items in the Start menu and its submenus were always alphabetized, and Win 95 could expand a long menu into multiple columns. But Windows 98 forces you to scroll. Is there a way to make the Win 98 Start menu behave like the one in Win 95?



A. It requires editing the Registry. Before you do this, back up your Registry to be safe.



Once your Registry is safely backed up, select Start, Run, type Regedit, and press Enter. In the Registry Editor, navigate the left pane, as you would in Windows Explorer, to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE \Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced. Once there, right-click a blank spot in the right-hand pane and select New, String Value. Name your new value StartMenuScrollPrograms. Press Enter once to save the name and again to bring up the Edit String dialog box. In that box's "Value data" field, type false. Press Enter, then close the Registry Editor and reboot.