"Bill in Co" wrote in
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thanatoid wrote:
"Bill in Co" wrote in
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Whenever I install a program, I remove the Start Menu
shortcuts it makes, and instead, cut and paste them over
to MY own groups that I have created in the Start Menu
(i.e., put them in categories that make more sense to
ME). And all of them work. And almost of all of these
shortcuts end up in the Documents and Settings, Bill,
Start Menu subgroups this way.

There is a faster, more sledgehammer-like way of doing it,
copying EVERYTHING from EVERYTHING to one account, and
then copying THAT to all the other accounts (this assumes
you have a 2-pane file manager, then it;s just 2 or 3 key
presses), and deleting dupli- and triplicates, or
something like that, possibly just copying everything to
the account you will always be using, I forget.

That's too much of a sledge hammer approach for me. I
don't want to have to deal with any duplicates, either, and
what I do now just avoids all of that.

It's not hard just moving the originally installed program
shortcuts to where I want them to be, after a program is
installed, and, of course, there are no duplicates created
this way.

My mileage DEFINITELY varied.

But deleting inevitable duplicates ("Oh, the Humanity",
excuse me, "Oh, The Microsoft") is a RPITA. With FL, you
set it up ONCE, and you're done *forever*, just copy the
settings somewhere safe in case of a crash or whatever.

SO was mine in 98SEL. I can send you a screenshot. Now I
have 4 items, in 4 corners.

Well, that just won't help me much. I just want the
same type of convenient access to all of my programs
(probably a couple of hundred or so), and using the start
menu and all its subgroups that I've created, works for
me. It's probably not your cup of tea, however. :-)

Even I don't have 200 programs, and I LIKE to tinker! Pray
tell, what are they (ID-revealing details are not reuired
;-) ? (And command line stuff does NOT qualify!)

I have a bunch of audio and video editing and/or
restoration programs, along with a bunch of system
utilities and file managers, CD and DVD apps, audio and mp3
utility programs, image and photo viewers, etc, etc. Just
collected over all the eons of time.

Can you recommend a good program for recovering data from an
old CDR? I have a couple of Quantegy (Ampex, as you probably
know) CDRs from 1997 which are FINE, but I also have a few
from about 10 years ago that are /not/ fine. The only one I
have found is "CD Recovery Toolbox FREE" but I have been too
busy setting up the system to really test it.

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Same here. Plus, working on HD video requires a super
computer. SD is already taxing enough of resources (if you
try cleaning up or editing any SD videos, its taxing
enough!

I don't know what SD is.

But unfortunately, a few of my programs
need the 1024x768 resolution (or you can't get it on the
screen).

Yes, I have run across a few. As long as they don't start
requiring 1600x1200. Well, my graphics chip has a fast res
switch. Yours probably does too, and if not, you can get
one off the net, free. There are several.

When it gets to the point of requiring 1600x1200 it becomes
a "thanks, but no thanks," item to me. In fact, if it's
more than 1024x768, it's already there.

And ditto for a program requiring .NET Framework 3.0 or
higher. Thanks, but no thanks.

You said it. No framework, 1, 2, or 3. (I have never seen 1.
Maybe it was like Windows ver. 1...)


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