Windows XP Let's get started from here

After the computer is booted up, the Windows desktop appears in front of us. Careful readers may find that the entire interface is divided into two parts, the icon area above and the taskbar area below. The icons on the desktop and the icons on the taskbar are all changeable. For each of these computers, there are more or less different ones, but all computers with Windows systems will not have a start menu in the lower left corner. The importance of the start menu in the Windows system is visible. In the Start menu you can launch programs installed on almost any computer, set up your computer, find files, log off your computer, shut down or restart your computer. A start menu contains almost all the computer operations, so it is easy to operate the computer with the use of the start menu.

Starting the menu is very simple. Put the mouse on the start button in the lower left corner of the screen and press the left mouse button to open the start menu (Figure 1). If we want to start the program, you can do this: Put the mouse on the "all programs", this will automatically pop up all the programs installed on the computer, start that, click on that.

Personalization

The start menu in XP comes in two forms, XP and Classic. The classic style is the same as the 9X and 2000 start menus we used before. The XP type of start menu has undergone major changes, mainly for us to access the Internet, email and some more frequently used programs. Relatively speaking, XP is more user-friendly and intelligent, and it is recommended for everyone to use. But if you are used to the traditional start menu, you can also use the classic. For the choice between the two, you can right click on the start button, select “Properties", open the “Start Menu”Setup window, which provides us with two forms of process introduction, which one to use, you will Select that, then click “OK”

The start menu is not unmanufacturable. We can make the necessary changes to the start menu according to our needs, so that it can serve us better. Still right click on the “start” button, then click “property", select “start menu”, click on the "custom","General” tab, You can set and select the icon size, the number of programs, the browser program, and the email program (see Figure 2); the "Advanced" tab has more features (Figure 3), you can control whether to make submenus Automatically pops up, highlights the newly installed program, and displays the 15 most recently opened documents. In addition, you can also set whether to let the control panel, photo collection, etc. display or display in the “Start Menu Item”. There are two ways to display, “Show as menu”, you can pop up for this item. Sub-menu, when the mouse is over the item, the sub-menu will pop up, and “ is displayed as a link  it just serves as a link, and when clicked, it will go to the specified position.

Locking Start Menu

If the computer you are using is a shared computer, is the start menu often changed beyond recognition? In fact, we just need to lock the start menu and lock the start menu, so others don't want to move it. Click “Start”, select “Run”, enter “regedit”Open the Registry Editor, locate HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer, and then create a new DWORD named NoChangeStartMenu, modify its value to 1, haha, let it Thunder, as long as you don't use DOS, the start menu is still your start menu. Sorting the Start Menu

There are a lot of options in the Start menu. For our convenience, it is necessary to make a reasonable arrangement. In the beginning, we can use the mouse to drag and drop to sort, we have a simpler and more convenient way. Still run the registry editor, find HKEY_CURRENT_USER SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion Explorer MenuOrderStart MenuMenu, right click on the right window “order”, select “delete”, confirm the exit, restart will find the start menu alphabetically sorted. Prohibit Start Menu Options

“My Network Places>,<quo;Search”,"Run" These items are required by the system, you can not delete them, but If you feel that the menu is too bloated, there is no way to ban or delete them. Select the “Start”→“Run” command, enter “gpedit.msc”,“OK" to start the Windows XP Group Policy Editor. In “‘Local Computer & rsquo;Strategy>, step by step & ldquo;User Configuration”→“Administrative Template”→“Taskbar and Start Menu” Branch, in the right window In the middle, the "taskbar" and "and start menu" related strategies are provided (Figure 4). Let's take the ban on "search" item. If you want to delete the item, just double-click “delete the search menu from the start menu” and select “enabled”, then you can see it in the start menu. Look, "Search” Is it gone? If you want to recover, just click “not configured” to restore the "search” item (Figure 5).