Restore Start Menu Functionality

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aabdis

hi all, ...
I am really liking Vista, and have been using B2 and RC1 for a while
at home;

The one thing i CAN NOT stand though, is the new "All Programs"
section of the start menu. It was SO much easier to get to things on
the old startmenu, where it used as much screen real estate as it
needed, so you could see everything nicely laid out ... as opposed to
the new one which tries to show the whole start menu structure in this
little tiny scrolling pane.
That might work fine if you only have 5 or 6 programs installed, but i
am a developer, and i wind up with a LOT of programs on my system, so
to try to navigate the start menu in that stupid little scroll box is
downright PAINFUL.

Is there any way, an add-on, a registry hack, a config file setting,
any way at all, to bring back the old cascading menus without going to
the old Windows 2000 looking menu which loses all the other
functionality of the start menu?

Thanks in advance;
- Aaron.
 
Choose the Classic Start Menu from the Taskbar properties sheet.

Have you tried the search field on the new start menu?
Just type in a few characters of the program you want and poof - it appears.
No wading through any menus.
 
The problem with classic start menu mode, is then it goes back to the
very plain, basic, unextended Windows 2000-style start menu.

As for the search box, it is nice enough, but the thing is, its a lot
easier to just roll the mouse around a little bit and then only have
one "keypress" (click) once you get where you are going as opposed to
the search box, where you:
1. move mouse to search box;
2. click;
3. type keypress of program name;
4. repeat 3. indefinitely until it narrows down enough;
5. hit enter;
the search box is a lot more work;
 
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