Windows 10: Start Button/Start Menu/All Programs

To remove clutter I just right click > open file location, and delete any shortcuts I never want to see again. Links to the authors web site, other downloads, all that junk that gets added with those free utilities etc. It gets rid of a lot of the junk that ends up on the all apps screen. I used to do the same thing in the Start Menu, there's just and extra step to find the actual shortcut.

 

Oh, thanks, just went thru all of them and deleted BIG bunch of links. Much cleaner now. Noticed one thing, the older the program, more junk links with it. If it would only be an option to have only executables make a link there would be no need to do this cleaning after. It looks good now, just to make it scroll vertically and it would be almost perfect menu.

 

What happens is when there was a Start Menu, some of the program shortcuts would be in sub folders. With the Start Screen they all go on the All Apps screen. You may have noticed when you did the open file location that it looks like the old Start Menu. You should see a Start Menu folder at the top of the tree. I went so far as to add my own shortcuts for Internet Explorer (the real one) and Shutdown.
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Yes, I found some in subfolders in Program data>Start Menu > Programs > under various programs installed and deleted all unnecessary links. Size of All Apps is now half of what it used to be.

 

Not to go too far off-topic but why do you use Rocketdock instead of just pinning it to the taskbar? I tried Rocketdock a few times but gave up as I couldn't get all minimised windows to show in the dock... now I just do this...

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As a RocketDock refugee I can say one reason to use RD is to have the same setup across multiple Windows flavors. XP and Vista don't have Taskbar pinning. I had categorized folders of shortcuts the same in each on RocketDock. Of course I still pinned stuff I used most on OS that supported it or used QuickLaunch if it didn't. Also I had 7Stacks with categorized stacks on Taskbar in Vista and W7.

Now I only have W8 and I'm bored with the same RD setup ritual. I just stumble along with a Taskbar Toolbar folder. *Smile

 

This is a test to see if automatic thread subscription works. *Smile

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Yes it does. *Smile

 

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If directed at me, I see this one now that I posted before you and therefore subscribed. In 8F there's an option to automatically subscribe or not if one posts. Here it automatically subscribes. This used to be a watched thread in the old software of which we all lost those.

 

Yes it was for you, just so you could see if it showed up in your list that's all

 

Thanks for the help. *Smile