Untitled.png (39.53 KiB) Viewed 218 times If I can get that 2x3 array to a linear form my mind can relax and go back to thinking "Win and down five for Excel"! MY Win10 Start menu currently involves, to skip the "group menu", then to activate the farthest item. These six items cover about 90% of my use of Windows, so for me then down-arrow no more than five times and an key was sufficient.
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The screenshot earlier shows my Start menu in Win7 with just six items. I find it personally obnoxious that to get Ctrl keys my new laptop herds me towards the mouse.
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On top of that it is difficult for me to miss a target with the discrete keyboard, hence my love of shortcut combinations with the Ctrl key. Even for those of us with mouse pointers set to warp speed, we are skating up and down the screen to establish contact with that little black "X" in the annoying pop-up window. This seems like a pedantic issue until you focus on the teller in the bank or the receptionist in the clinic and see just how much time is soaked up in moving the pointer to the click-point. When we really watch people using a mouse, they do effect One Click, but prior to that they execute anything from one to four extra hand-wrist movements to get there. Many people claim that "it is just one click away", but I have watched people using the mouse/trackpad for thirty years now, and I have watched myself. and herein lies my underlying problem with the mouse:. But of course it many times involves a right-click, and hence using a mouse or a track pad, not a keyboard. , 19:09I think jump lists and pins, and thus pinning, has been around for a couple of OS generations as you have found. Recently used are there from the beginning ("Anteckningar" = "Notepad").
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Many people tend to pin some software to the Taskbar, and that's also a great place for recently used files for each application, and to start programs, that's why they're there, though it can be a bit more difficult to access jump lists without a mouse.Īs mentioned on some places, and you may have seen some, you can either use a non-registry method or a small registry hack. Perhaps that's why you've not been using them that much. But of course it many times involves a right-click, and hence using a mouse or a track pad, not a keyboard, unless there's a dedicated right-click key. I think jump lists and pins, and thus pinning, has been around for a couple of OS generations as you have found. So I started up the old Toshiba/Win7 beast and took a second look:. I already can access any recently used file (document, workbook, image, database etc) from the drop-down list in my MRUse application in Word2003. Ī Jump List sounds like a pop-up Most Recently Used list tacked to applications in the task bar, but for some obscure reason I wanted my items in the Start Menu, possibly because I think of the task bar as a place where running applications are shown, and I think of the Start Menu as a place from which applications can be run. I looked up "Jump Lists" and learned that they were available in Win7 (who knew?!!) which, sad to relate, brings out the "I've done without them so far.
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That said, I was looking for the process I used in Win7, which was to be able to tap the Windows key (bringing up the start menu) and then tapping the down-arrow key to jump into something I used many times a day. The truth is that I have postponed Win10 for five years, so I have a lot of catching up to do to even trail the rest of the world. I am sure that I seem obtuse to you (all), but my reaction was "Oh no! Not another MS way of doing something that I have to learn". , 21:52Not exactly what you are asking for, but I pin frequently used documents to the jump list for the app that opens them. I would add that many threads on this topic date from 2015, and I suspect that MS has changed Win10 since then, so that many of the screen shots and instructions do not apply to Win10-2004. I think I'm doing something wrong because it ought to be a simple matter of right-clicking and saying "I'd like this on the start menu, please". I have read through several threads, here and on the web, and confess to being put off by the complexity of some of the solutions. I would like to pin a document or workbook to the start menu, but a right-click on the document, or on a shortcut to the document, does not bring up the option to "Pin To Start". I have managed to pin (and execute) Notepad and MSPaint executables there. I have managed to pin and execute three of my batch files. I have managed to unpin everything that MS put there Untitled.png (89.16 KiB) Viewed 290 timesI love Windows 10, but I'm getting a year or two ahead of myself.