Start Everywhere is a free & portable Start Menu alternative that can be run either as a replacement for the Windows native Start Menu or as well as. Start Everywhere is highly customizable, both in terms of display and content, and can be set to […]
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It’s very easy to pin shortcuts to folders to the Start menu in Windows 11 but the feature is limited to a selection of folders as designated by Microsoft. However, the feature does allow for the most often accessed folders to be pinned, including most
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It’s something we’ve probably all experienced occasionally, when access to the normal shutdown and restart options are unavailable, such as when the Start button and/or menu are unresponsive. Most of us will resort to holding the power button in to power down and then pressing
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Sorry, no screenshots this time. A few days ago I was called because a guy’s laptop wouldn’t boot up. This was an HP. It seemed completely dead. Then I noticed a little light that came on where the power was plugged in and another little
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Personalize Your Start Menu Folders Degree of Difficulty = 1 DoD codes are defined in the Original Tips Article. One of the best features added in Windows 11 is the ability to add or remove Folders (icons) from the bottom of the Start Menu. (Ed
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Where Do You Keep Your Start Button? Of all the changes in various Windows iterations, the Start button has always been a bone of contention. Since it was first introduced in Windows 95 all those years ago, it has remained bottom left ever since, with
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Any regular reader of my articles will be well aware that I am a huge fan of portable software and will choose portable whenever possible. Portable applications do not require installation, meaning they do not create any registry entries and all associated files are self-contained
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Window’s Tools Are Not Enough? Startup Files are more than the automatic startup of just Programs or Apps. In fact, a startup file can be a system-driven file that Windows uses to make Windows work. It can be user-installed programs or apps; it can be
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There is some personalization of the Windows 10 Start Menu built into Windows 10. If you go to Settings > Personalization > Start, you will see changes you can make. However, we are not going to cover those changes in this article. We will cover
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I usually have a bunch of HTML files on my system for one reason or another. When I double-click on one it would open in my default browser, Opera. After the last update, that stopped. Instead, I was getting a blank screen and in the
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