Display programs list on the Start menu in scrolling mode.

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This setting can make the programs list in Start menu to appear in scrolling mode.
Level: Recommended For Novice Users
Description:
When programs installed on your machine exceeds single-column display on start menu, windows uses multi-columns (2-panel or 3-panel) display to show the programs. But, with this setting you can switch back to single-column and make the start menu programs list to scroll. For this, go to start > run, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a string value startmenuscrollprograms, if this value does not exist. Now, right-click and modify the value to yes which can make start menu programs list to scroll. However, if you want to show multi-column display back, change the value data to no or delete the value. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.




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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".
Go to <b>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\]</b> , right-click in the open area to create a String Value with the name "StartMenuScrollPrograms" in "Advanced" key.
Next, right-click on "StartMenuScrollPrograms" and click on 'Modify'.
Finally, enter the value "Yes" in the text box and click on 'OK'.


Registry Entries

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  • Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\]
  • Location: Current User
  • Value Name: StartMenuScrollPrograms
  • Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
  • Enabled Value: YES
  • Disabled Value: NO
  • Action Type: Modified


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