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re: Question about 'Replacing Start Menu scrolling with good 'ol multiple columns'
Wednesday, December 21, 2005 at 7:07 pm
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Posted by Fred Kahan (2 messages posted)


The problem of excessively wide columns in the start menu results from an individual menu item with a very long name. Locate the offending name and abbreviate it! All columns will then shrink to their former state and will no longer overflow the screen width. Simple!!


On Monday, September 6, 2004 at 11:19 pm, kd wrote:
>try this it works in 98 use regedit to open the regstry be very careful in here.
> search for smcaptionwidth i used a value of 1100. you will need to reboot after
>the change
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re: Question about 'Replacing Start Menu scrolling with good 'ol multiple columns' (kd: Monday, September 6, 2004 at 11:19 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'Replacing Start Menu scrolling with good 'ol multiple columns' (Jane: Sat, Sep 14, 2002, 7:17 am)
*re: Question about 'Replacing Start Menu scrolling with good 'ol multiple columns' (Carl D: Sat, Sep 14, 2002, 7:56 am)
-re: Question about 'Replacing Start Menu scrolling with good 'ol multiple columns' (Jane: Mon, Sep 16, 2002, 3:38 pm)
-re: Question about 'Replacing Start Menu scrolling with good 'ol multiple columns' (Ray: Fri, Dec 27, 2002, 9:36 pm)
-re: Question about 'Replacing Start Menu scrolling with good 'ol multiple columns' (kd: Mon, Sep 6, 2004, 11:19 pm)
*re: Question about 'Replacing Start Menu scrolling with good 'ol multiple columns' (Fred Kahan: Wed, Dec 21, 2005, 7:07 pm)
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