Les asks, “What’s on your Windows Start Menu?” (Assuming, of course, one has Windows …)
- Microsoft Office Project – This one I use all the time — though usually it, too, gets started via double-clicking on an MPP file.
- Calculator – Ah! This one I actually use from the Start menu. Because I do, sometimes, need to add up numbers.
- Microsoft Photo Editor – A very nice, light, fast photo editor. So, of course, M$ doesn’t distribute it with Office any more.
- Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 – A very nice, heavy, slow photo editor. I use this for processing most of my photos.
- Splash ID Desktop – Windows version of my Secret Password / Number / PIN / Rx / SSN / Credit Card storage database.
- iPassConnect – VPN portal for the company.
- palmOne Quick Install – File installer for my Palm/Treo.
- NetMeeting – Desktop sharing for Windows.
Now, the fact is, the Start Menu is not where the action is on my machine. That would be the Quick Launch bar:
- Show Desktop – a/k/a Hide Everything Quick.
- Windows Explorer
- PSA Cards – My phone book
- IE – I don’t use it, but techs who come to work on my machine do, and I’d rather they find it here than go rooting around my Start menu for it …
- Microsoft Outlook – Office e-mail, schedule, to-do list.
- Microsoft Word – Word processing
- Microsoft Excel – Duh …
- SmartMT – Blog client.
- Firefox – The browser I actually use.
- BalanceLog – Key to the Geek Diet, where I enter in my calories.
- Thunderbird – E-mail is Go!
- Shortcut to our electronic timesheet system.
- Shortcut to my WIST quotations database in Access
- iTunes – My music player.
- EditPad Light – My text editor.
By the way, like Randy, I keep my Taskbar on the left side of my screen, rather than the bottom, and for nearlhy all the reasons he does.
Ah. But I see that the original idea is the stuff in the “most recently used” Start menu. Well …
- City of Heroes – Booyah!
- HeroStats – Statistical tracker for CoH.
- CoH Planner – Character planner for CoH.
- Microsoft Office Picture Manager – New MS freebie photo editor/organizer with Office. So-so.
- Command Prompt – Yes, I do sometimes use DOS.
- Brainforest Deluxe – Creates to-do checklists for the Palm and the PC.
- Tweak UI – I think I was in this the other day turning off the “let new windows opening up seize control of your screen” setting.
- Microsoft Office PowerPoint – Yeah, I have to use this one, sometimes, too.
- SpywareBlaster – Anti-spyware software; turns off/locks down various settings that the black hats use.
- Spybot S&D – Another anti-spyware package. What’s dropped off the list since last week’s biweekly spy-scrubbing was AdAware, the third anti-spyware program I run.
And now you know.
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