unmortal Posted October 4, 2001 Share Posted October 4, 2001 Lo guys. that old tweak to do so was to make a folder called 'controlpanel.{bounch of letters/numbers}'. It works now too, but the .{?????} dont disappear anymore! duh :) Anyone figured it out yet how to do this little tweak ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RazerBack Posted October 4, 2001 Share Posted October 4, 2001 Right click on the Start button, choose properties. Click on the Start Menu tab, click on the customize button for Start Menu. Click on the advanced tab, on Start menu items for the Control Panel, click on the radio button Display as menu. And that's all she wrote! Hope this helps. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unmortal Posted October 4, 2001 Author Share Posted October 4, 2001 Ugh... :D after some scratching and more scratching on my head I got it! ;) I will add/change some of the hints to do this as RazerBack wrote. Instead of... ...on Start menu items for the Control Panel, click on the radio button Display as menu. you should do following, locate the controlpanel in the leftpane, drag and drop controlpanel on your own startmenu. This way could depend on that Im using classic style on my start menu, to lazy to check if RazerBack's version worked in XP Startmenu style Anyway thanks alot RazerBack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markm7 Posted October 4, 2001 Share Posted October 4, 2001 1)Right click on start menu, click explore. 2)Explorer window opens 3)Right click in in right pane 4)Click on New then Folder 5)Name it Control Panel 6)Open Contol Panel 7)Select all and drag to start button, wait till it opens(without letting go of Mouse) 8)drag it up to the new folder. And you will get this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 4, 2001 Share Posted October 4, 2001 Illll....you use the classic start menu, youre not a true XP lover. haha :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElGato Posted October 4, 2001 Share Posted October 4, 2001 Am I missing something? Why not just right click the task bar select properties click advanced tab then check expand control panel? OK maybe its not directly from the Start Menu but its only one step a way and quite frankly I hate having a big Start Menu anyhow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markm7 Posted October 4, 2001 Share Posted October 4, 2001 Originally posted by Hunter Illll....you use the classic start menu, youre not a true XP lover. haha :D :cheeky: I do love XP, but the start menu...........eh, too cumbersome in my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markm7 Posted October 4, 2001 Share Posted October 4, 2001 Originally posted by ElGato Am I missing something? Why not just right click the task bar select properties click advanced tab then check expand control panel? OK maybe its not directly from the Start Menu but its only one step a way and quite frankly I hate having a big Start Menu anyhow. Your way works too, but i like less steps. If I could, I would put it cascading off the "Quick start".:D But I havn't figured that one out, ........Yet!:ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 4, 2001 Share Posted October 4, 2001 why not just right click the taskbar, then goto the toolbars menu, select new toolbar then expand my computer then click control panel? you can do it with any folder on your computer if you want Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markm7 Posted October 4, 2001 Share Posted October 4, 2001 You are correct, and I've done this before, why I stop doing it this way, I dunno Good call Hunter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 4, 2001 Share Posted October 4, 2001 check it out! I have a little toolabr at the top with my computer and control panel AND address bar. saves so much time and I can browse through my whole computer with menus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markm7 Posted October 4, 2001 Share Posted October 4, 2001 Very Cool! Uh..:ponder: ............That copy of Photoshop.........It is a legit copy reistered to you right?:evil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaos34 Posted October 4, 2001 Share Posted October 4, 2001 Looks like too many people haven't played with their Start Menu settings too much =p You can pretty much expand the important system settings folders (i.e. Control Panel, Network Settings, etc.) from the start menu propoerties.:s :p Also, for the "quick start" thing you were mentioning huckleberry, one way i know how to expand the control panel from teh quick start menu is to use your old method of adding the control panel to the start menu, except drag the whole folder into your quick start menu and make the quick start menu smaller so that it shows up under the double arrow icon. It should expand now... hopefully :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 4, 2001 Share Posted October 4, 2001 its registered to me alright! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markm7 Posted October 4, 2001 Share Posted October 4, 2001 khaos34 Unfortunatly it won't cascade from the quick start, but Hunter had another way which works real well look up a couple of post from this one.:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PabUK Veteran Posted October 4, 2001 Veteran Share Posted October 4, 2001 Hunter that is quite cool, I never realised you could do that before! I have a similar setup now, except I have the favorites menu up there as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 4, 2001 Share Posted October 4, 2001 I was thinking of doing that, but all my favorites are right in the address bar, so why bother? hehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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