Posted by ketyung
on Tue, Sep 16th, 08
at 7:47 am
For an overly busy geek, who always installs and uninstalls a couple of programs to and from your Windows OS (XP or Vista), you’ll easily get the Start menu of your Windows messed up. The positions of those programs on the Windows start menu always shift, making it hard for you to relocate the same menu to access a program, once a few of other programs have been uninstalled from your computer. This definitely lowers your productivity as you need a longer pause to locate the menu to access a program.
VistaStartMenu 3.0 is a software that adds easiness for you to locate the menus on your Windows Start. In short, the Vista Start Menu is the convenient alternative to your plain Windows start menu. The very basic method by VistaStartMenu 3.0 is making use of visual memory (the ability to memorize images and locations of objects) or reflexes of a human brain, so you can then automatically memorize and locate a menu much more quickly.
Vista Start Menu 3.0 does it by having the menus to alway get arranged back into their original positions or in alphabetical order, and each menu is associated with a unique icon from the program itself. Making it to stand out to your visual memory. So, whenever you’ve uninstalled a program from your Windows, the menus do NOT shift, you can then easily locate the menus you want without having to search around.
I’ve installed and tested the VistaStartMenu to replace the plain Start Menu of my Windows. As shown in above, it now presents with different skin on my Windows Start menu, and those menus are nicely arranged in alphabetical order, and the menus do NOT shift whenever I’ve uninstalled a program.
Take a look at the original Windows Start Menu of mine before installing the VistaStartMenu 3.0, and look at how those menus are scattered around, which always puts me into long pause to locate those menus whenever I wanna launch a program.
The VistaStartMenu 3.0 also offers the great Single-Click launch. This feature is to identify which program in a folder is the main program that you always launch. And after learning that, it’ll use the icon of the main program for the folder. This allows you to easily locate the program that you wanna access in a highly visualizable manner.
For example in the original Windows start menu, to access Winamp, you’ll need to get to the Winamp folder to launch the Winamp program. And normally it takes some times for you to locate the Winamp folder as it’s simply represented by only a plain “folder” icon.
But if you’ve enabled the Vista Start Menu 3.0, now you can more easily locate where the Winamp folder is, as it’s now associated with the Winamp icon that attracts your eyes easily.
The VistaStartMenu also offers various flexibilities such as enlarging the font size, resizing the entire start menu, adding, grouping, editing menus, drag and drop the start menu around your desktop, adding tabs onto to bottom of the start menu as short cuts to various functions and you even can designate keys of your keyboard to the menus for quick access.
The PRO version of Vista Start Menu 3.0 will be officially released on Sept, 19th. Currently, users can download its Free version here. If you want more features, an extended version is also available which can be purchased for USD $20.14 only. Find out more on VistaStartMenu website
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