Expanding Computer Menu

[jc4gavejc]

I love the Windows 7 Start Menu, and its versitality astounds me at times, but the inability for the "Computer" menu to be completely expandable cripples quite a bit of my productivity...



This problem does not exist with the personal menu, which quite frankly I could care less about completely expanding.



In general, Windows 7 has seemed to abandon the concept of expanding menus which can actually make things much much quicker at least for me, but I have gotten a separate toolbar working in the taskbar, but this seems inconvenient coming from someone who has always used classic menus on the Start Menu.

Don't get me wrong, I am very GLAD that Windows 7 makes such improvements to the way the start menu functions and in general these improvements have greatly added to my efficiency, but this really cripples someone like me!



Any suggestions?

 

[SquonkSC]

Hi jc4gavejc,

I'm sure a registry hack will fix this. I'll look into it.

greetz

 

[jc4gavejc]

Here's what I'm thinking.

The only way that I know of accomplishing this is by using a folder with fully expandable menu support that is already in the Start Menu, setting up symbolic links to all your drives (through MKLINK /d) and editing the registry to change the display name of the start menu item.

Don't want to do that if I don't have to though

 

[SquonkSC]

I'll get back to you when i figured out the right reg key.

Tomorrow because I'm off to bed soon.

greetz

 

[jc4gavejc]

got it working just by using the "Recorded TV" Library and manually adding the drives I have, but...

Doesn't hide drives if they are empty (have a multiformat card reader which displays 8 or so drives in the Library and I use maybe 5 of em, but I like them to be hidden as they are in Explorer when not in use)

USB drives plugged in present a bit of a dilemma as well

still trying to figure out how to get CD ROM support, which this method does not seem to have (gives me an error)

 

[SquonkSC]

Spend a few hrs fiddling with the registry.

Found the one that changes, and set the subkeys according to the user key.

That didn't change a thing.

So I give up. It's to a minor issue to spend more time on.

Good to hear you found some sort of alternative.

Greetz