What is the Start menu

I. Understanding the Start Menu

The Start menu consists of a user account area, a list of fixed items, a list of most frequently used programs, a list of all programs, a list of system folders, a list of system setup items, and help, search, run-area and shutdown, logoff areas, each with a different function.

Understanding the Start Menu

1. User Account Area

The user account area is at the top of the Start menu, which displays the account name and user picture of the currently logged-on user. But there is no time to display the user name, you can see: On the Start menu does not display the user name

2 Fixed Items list

Programs in the fixed items list always remain in the list, unlike the list of programs in the most Frequently used programs list, which changes as you frequently use the program. This typically contains shortcut buttons for IE and Outlook e-mail transceivers.

Start Menu Fixed Items list

3. List of most commonly used programs

Here you will automatically list some of the programs you use frequently, and if you don't use them later, the program name will be replaced by other programs that are frequently used.

4. List of All Programs

The All Programs list is actually a submenu, and when you click on the "All Programs" item, a menu pops up with all the programs installed on your computer, and you can click to execute the programs individually.

5. System Folder List

The list of system folders displays icons such as My Documents, my Computer, my music, and click an icon option to open the appropriate window. Let's take a look at what these options have in their respective functions.

"My Documents": Click on it to open a folder that Microsoft has set up for you to store private files, and the name of this folder is called "My Documents."

"My Recent Documents": Clicking on it does not appear in another folder called "My Recent Documents," but a list of menus listing the names of the documents you have recently visited, clicking the name of the document and opening the documents again.

"My Pictures": Click this option to open a private folder, which is located in My Documents, named "My Pictures." Obviously, this is the Microsoft initiative to help you build, you can store some pictures in this folder.

"My Music": This is what Microsoft built for you. When you put the mouse over it, it appears with a Chinese annotation that tells you that "my Music" is the folder where the music files are stored.

"My Computer": As the name suggests, it is known as "my" computer, then click on it is sure to be able to detail view of all the computer.

6. System Setup Project list

This includes the Control Panel, set Program Access and defaults, and Printers and Faxes command items.

Control Panel: Click it to open the Control Panel window and set up the various hardware components and software for your computer.

Printers and Faxes: Click to add and set up printers and faxes.

7. Help, search, run area

Here, you can complete the Help, search files and run programs and other operations. Help and Support: Click to learn how to use Windows and get some troubleshooting information. "Search": This is used to help search for files and folders that have forgotten where the computer is located. "Run": For starters, this one is less used because in Windows you can double-click the program name to run it, and click on it to enter the path and name of the program, so by contrast, using this item to run a program can be cumbersome.

8. Closing and cancellation of the area

Computer startup and shutdown, this area can complete the cancellation of the current user, turn off the computer or restart the computer operations. "Logoff": the user account area at the top of the Start menu is written with the name of the current user, then clicking the "Log Off" entry logs off the current user and prompts you to select a username to log on to Windows.

Close, logoff area

"Turn Off your computer": This is the option you perform every time you use your computer, because after you use the computer, you will need to click this to turn off the computer. After clicking on this item, there are 3 options on the screen. One is "standby", click it will put the computer on standby (computer does not turn off), the second is "off", click it will perform shutdown operation; third, "Reboot", click it will automatically restart the computer once.

　Two. Start Menu simple Setup

We can make some settings for the Start menu, mainly in the following aspects.

1 Change the Start menu to classic style

To change the Start menu to a style in an earlier version, you can right-click the Start button, and then click Properties in the pop-up menu to open the Start Menu tab, and then click the Classic Start menu to set the Start menu to the classic style, and if you want to make other choices about the Start menu style, You can click the Customize button next to classic Start menu.

2 adding, deleting, and moving items

Items on the Start menu can be added, deleted, and moved. To delete an item on the Start menu, simply select the item you want to delete, press the DEL key on the keyboard or click Remove From list on the menu, and to add some items to the menu, drag the item directly onto the Start menu button; To move an item on the menu, Just drag the item to the target location.

3. Change the number of list items

We can change the number of programs shown in the most Frequently used programs list. Right-click the Start button, and then click Properties on the pop-up menu to open the Start Menu tab, and then click the Customize button next to the Start menu in the Customize the Start Menu window, in the Programs column, set the number of programs displayed.

4. Purge List

To clear the program that appears in the most Frequently used programs list, you can right-click the Start button, then click the Properties option in the pop-up menu to open the Start Menu tab, click the Customize button next to Start menu, and then click in the Custom Start menu window under the Programs bar. Clear list, and finally make sure that the program shortcuts that you previously displayed in the most frequently used programs list are cleared.

A shortcut to the cleanup program does not remove the program from your computer.