Start Menu Organiser written 4 years ago
The windows “All Programs” list gets woefully unusuable once more than a few programs are installed. My start menu spanned over 3 columns, and required a magnifying glass to find anything.
One solution to this is to reorganise things into categories, but this is time consuming, and choosing where to put things is difficult. This tool aims to solve this problem by automating this process, and providing a tool to quickly organise the installed apps.
Pictured left is the effect of running the tool on my start menu. as You can see it’s much nicer!
Programs are divided into the following categories
- Customisation
- Desktop Publishing
- Office
- Internet
- Imaging
- Media Utils
- Media Players
- Utils
- System
- Video
- Development
- Services
- PIM
- Scientific
- Custom Categories. Create as many custom categories as you like.
Download
Download is in the form of a zip file, simply download the file and extract the contents to a folder on your computer. Once extracted, run the organise.hta file.
Screenshots
Main Application Interface
Popup, requesting choice of category for “Google Sketchup”
Choosing a custom category for “Google Sketchup”
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saysNote with UAC enabled in Vista, you will need to do the following to organise all of the start menu:
Run the start menu organiser as normal, except untick the “Re-organise All users” option.
Find “Command Prompt” in the start menu.
Navigate to the folder where you have extracted the program:
For example, if you extracted the program to D:\Downloads\Organiser, do the following:
D:cd Downloads\OrganiserStart the program, by typing
organise.htaRun the start menu organiser as normal, except untick the “Re-organise Current User” option.