The "All Programs" menu NEVER showed you ALL of your programs. It only showed you programs that installed an icon into the Start Menu during install (and the standard built-in Windows software).

Miss the way Windows XP would show all your installed software in one big list? Here are two ways to restore that capability in Windows 7.

Windows 7 All Programs Menu The All Programs menu displays the installed applications in a similar hierarchy as the Explorer file manager.

HOW DO YOU organize the 'All Programs' menu in WinXP??? I'd like to organize the growing collection of program files into categorized sub-folders. I was previously able to do this at will since ...

The All Programs link (Figure 5) brings back a bit of nostalgia, with fully customizable, nested menu items. The entries in the All Programs menu have all the smarts they had in Windows 7.

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Move all your utility programs into the Utilities folder. You can easily do this in the Open Shell menu by dragging and dropping a shortcut into the appropriate folder.

You can easily configure the Windows 7 Start menu, changing the look and putting your favorite programs front and center.

All Programs The new program highlighting feature also colors any new programs yellow within the All Programs menu, which is a submenu of the Start menu.

The Start menu certainly boasts certain advantages over the Start screen, but one major disadvantage is the way the folders and shortcuts for all your programs easily become disorganized.