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http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?WS=Wish

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Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
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"Robert Dibley" <RobertDibley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I don't know if this is the best place (or even a good place) to ask this,
> but what the hell.
>
> Is there somewhere else for posting suggestions to Microsoft about improving
> features within Windows ?
>
> The improvement which I'd like to suggest is to change the behaviour of the
> recently used programs part of the Start Menu so that it doesn't include any
> programs which are already pinned. I have several programs pinned because I
> use them so often - Word, Excel, Outlook Express etc - so it's pointless and
> irritating to have them appear twice on the menu because they are on the
> recent programs list under the pinned list too. This is even more irritating
> when, as occasionally happens, it is a program which has a unique initial
> letter which I use to quickly start the program. For example on my Start
> Menu, Notepad is the only pinned item starting with N, and so I can press
> "Start, N" to run it. Unfortunately sometimes Notepad ends up in the
> recently used list, and then because there are two programs beginning with N,
> my shortcut no longer works.
>
> One point worth noting perhaps, seeing as I've just tried this and it didn't
> seem to happen ... it only happens at bootup, if you do anything to modify
> the Start Menu - such as pinning a different item - then all duplicates get
> removed. And they won't reappear if you use the program again. However as
> soon as you do a restart, they reappear in the menu, and stay until they are
> forcibly removed, such as by pinning something else.

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http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;114491

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Robert Dibley" <RobertDibley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> That just takes me to a page full of contacts - none of which appears to
> be
> somewhere to make suggestions about changes to anything. In fact the only
> thing which asks for feedback is for website feedback.
>
> "Mary Sauer" wrote:
>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?WS=Wish
>>
>> --
>> Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
>> http://office.microsoft.com/
>> http://msauer.mvps.org/
>> news://msnews.microsoft.com
>

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You're welcome!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Robert Dibley" <RobertDibley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Ah, excellent, thanks!
>
> "Richard Urban" wrote:
>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;114491
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>>
>> aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
>>
>> If you knew as much as you thought you know,
>> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>>
>