When I go to the Task Bar / Start / Programs, the programs list vertically in one column down the screen. To see them all I have to go to the bottom of the list and wait for it to scroll down. I have seen other peoples machines having the Programs menu listing columns side by side across the screen. Is there a setting for this somewhere ? Thanks, Norman.

There are two options 1. TweakUI - a Win customization utility you can find on most any freeware/ shareware site. It also has lots of other little doodads for Windows 2. Edit the Registry. This is the less suggested approach if you are not familiar with working in the Registry Edit the following keys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer "StartMenuScrollPrograms=FALSE" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Advanced "StartMenuScrollPrograms=FALSE" Some machines work with the first line others with the second, if you use both, it doesn't harm anything.

Thank you 'Me'. I couldn't find it in Tweak UI ( latest '98 version ) but the regedit fixed it fine ! Thanks again !

Cut and paste this into a text editor and import it into your registry. REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Advanced\Folder\StartMenuScrollPrograms] "Type"="checkbox" "Text"="Multi-Column Start Menu" "HKeyRoot"=dword:80000001 "RegPath"="Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced" "ValueName"="StartMenuScrollPrograms" "CheckedValue"=dword:00000000 "UncheckedValue"=dword:00000001 "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 "HelpID"="update.hlp" Open Explorer Go Tools/Folder Options/View and you should find a tick box to select "Multi column start menu"

Thanks, I tried that and it works great - have to remove the original "StartMenuScrollPrograms=FALSE" regedit though..