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My “start menu” profile

Jim asks about “start menu” profiles. Here’s mine:

WindowsXP SP2: VS.NET 2005 Beta 1, VS.NET 2003, Word 2003, Outlook, Outlook Express (for the Monad newsgroup), Remote Desktop Connection, Powerpoint (!), Visio, Notepad, Cygwin, Internet Exlporer.

My “All Programs” is organised into these folders (I like it organised and hierarchal rather than flat):

  • Development (VS.NET *, WSE *, Java *, SQL 2005 Beta 2, etc.)
  • Utilities (Mono, Winzip, Winrar, Newsgator, ConferenceXP, Firefox, IsoBuster)
  • Microsoft Office (All office programs)
  • Media (Windows Media Player 10, Real, iTunes)
  • DTP (Dreamweaver MX 2004, Adobe Acrobat, Ghostview, Photoshop)
  • AccessIBM (thinkpad stuff)
  • Accessories (Windows stuff)

Yours?

3 responses to “My “start menu” profile”

  1. Mark Little
    Windows XP: xemacs, cygwin, J2SDK, Sun’s JWSDP, Word, Exceed, SSH, tcpmon, wincvs, Visio and PowerPoint and Outlook Express (Outlook is too heavyweight when all you want is a mail reader). “All Programs” (cut down): Adobe (acrobat and friends) GNU (xemacs and wincvs) Cygwin Java (JDK and friends) Web Services Development (Sun’s JDWSP, WebSphere) Printers (lexmark and sharp utils) IBM (thinkpad stuff) Lotus Office (the usual suspects) PC Doctor Visio Media (DVDExpress, winamp, …) Exceed SSH
  2. Jim Webber
    The “recently used programs” is more interesting. Your menu organisation is a look into how organised (or retentive) you are, but the recently used programs gives me a glimpse of what you’ve been doing up to the point you deliver your talk.
  3. Kostas Pantos
    Recently used programs: Notepad2, Remote Desktop Connection, MS Visual Studio 2003, MS Word 2003, SQL Ent. Manager 2000, MS Visual studio 2003 Command prompt.