re: Start menu error message
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 11:07 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by will2
(3 messages posted)
Thanks for help. Sorry, it's a laptop, and screen damage covers most of the bottom
left corner, so when I clk 'Start', I cannot see 'Properties'; I can tell there are
9 lines of items, but only the names of the top 3: Open, Explore, Add to VLC Media..
are identifiable. Is there an alternative access to the 'start menu > properties
> start menu tab > customise > general tab' you recommend ? - when I do clk on
Start>Open... the focus moves into an explorer screen ...>Start Menu>Programs>Startup
- and at the same level are a few programs I don't need at Startup, eg 'The KMPlayer'
and XMediaRecode. I see they just contain Shortcuts, so ok to delete them ? Likewise
an empty 'Administrative Tools' folder ?
I am surprised 12 icons 'on the left side' is too many - as previously mentioned,
its a newish install, and previously I had more icons on left side.
The 'left side' has NO 'divide'. The right side has a 'divide' below the 8th icon,
and 3 icons below that: 'Help & Support', Search, and Run
If you know of an alternate access to customise>general tab, when I get there, will
it be clear which are the 'pinned' items, and 'remembered items' ?
On Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 5:21 am, indivisible wrote:
>If you look at your start menu you will see that the left side has shortcuts to
commonly
>used programs. You have too many programs trying to display and this is generating
>the message you're getting.
>If you right click the start menu > properties > start menu tab > customise > general
>tab.
>Under "Programs" you can select the number of items to be remembered and displayed.
>/>
>I believe this number does not take "pinned items" into account. Meaning that you
>can choose to pin as many items to the upper half (above the divide) by dragging
>shortcuts there and then have x shortcuts remembered below.
>You are getting this message because the combined pinned items and remembered programs
>are too many to be displayed at once on the start menu. You should remove some pinned
>items, decrease the number of remembered or you can increase the space you have
to
>work with by making the icons smaller (option on the same tab as the previous).
>
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