Hey i am thinking about another way to access my items instead of filling my desktop or making a million subfolders i figured it out... if i were able to make a menu in the old-style version then i just get that menu then i can place it in the startup folder in the start menu So my question is... How can i make a simple menu like this: 1. IE 2. Warcraft 3. Forza Motorsport and then i can write the number and press enter and i have provided the paths and then it linked to the program selected and closed the batch file/cmd I am running Windows XP Pro

"instead of filling my desktop or making a million subfolders i figured it out..." I don't think I understand. Instead of making a million folders and sub folders, you want to make a batch file with a million numbers to select programs? Wouldn't it be better to make folders for each associated type of application (for example Games, utilities, word processing, video, grahics, etc) then create more groups under them.

Or just use the Start button menu for occasionally used programs or games.

Or create a folder with shortcuts to each program. Life's more painless for the brainless.

I saw something that looked like an active desktop web page. It used sort of a 1 through 16 button on the desktop. While it was used for favorite web pages one may be able to just write a simple web page and run it locally with active desktop. Your names of programs would be hyper linked to local files instead of web pages. Should be too easy. I use a web page like that for all sorts of local files and programs but I haven't used it as active desktop. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.

Why reinvent the wheel?

Did you bother trying Google? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22d... Life's more painless for the brainless.