Re: Too many items in start menu

I tried moving my task bar to the top, and the start menu doesn't overlap...
you might try unlocking it, moving it to the side or bottom, and back up to
the top.... just to see if that changes it.



"Sheila Hoffman" <> wrote in message
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> This is most annoying... I've started getting this error message telling
> me
> there are too many items in start menu and to try a different resolution!
> For god's sake! Is this talking about the pinned items and/or the recently
> opened items or what? Surely not the items in the actual start menu.
> There's
> not that many there! I've only had the computer a few days. I'm not even
> done loading everything yet. I've organized the shortcuts in the start
> menu
> into folders and subfolders. My video card is set to 1600 dpi and I'm
> using
> large fonts. I keep my taskbar on the top. I've noticed Vista doesn't
> really
> like that....notice how the start menu is slightly beneath the taskbar at
> the top. Also, the impact of the error message is that the start menu is
> no
> longer flush left but offset a bit. I'm attaching a screen capture of this
> (though I can't catch the error as it doesn't stay up).
>
> Thanks for any insights.
> Sheila
>

Thanks Dave: It doesn't always do this. It happens when I get the nag. Last
time I fixed it by deleted a bunch of stuff in recently visited. When I move
it to the bottom it's fine but when I move it back to the top it's still
off-set like this. I'm a bit surprised there's no way to disable this either
within Vista or with some add-in. I don't know how Mac puts up with it. It's
totally unacceptable to me! Maybe it'll have a fix with SP1....

sheila



"Dave" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I tried moving my task bar to the top, and the start menu doesn't
>overlap... you might try unlocking it, moving it to the side or bottom, and
>back up to the top.... just to see if that changes it.
>
>
>
> "Sheila Hoffman" <> wrote in message
> news:#ww$...
>> This is most annoying... I've started getting this error message telling
>> me
>> there are too many items in start menu and to try a different resolution!
>> For god's sake! Is this talking about the pinned items and/or the
>> recently
>> opened items or what? Surely not the items in the actual start menu.
>> There's
>> not that many there! I've only had the computer a few days. I'm not even
>> done loading everything yet. I've organized the shortcuts in the start
>> menu
>> into folders and subfolders. My video card is set to 1600 dpi and I'm
>> using
>> large fonts. I keep my taskbar on the top. I've noticed Vista doesn't
>> really
>> like that....notice how the start menu is slightly beneath the taskbar at
>> the top. Also, the impact of the error message is that the start menu is
>> no
>> longer flush left but offset a bit. I'm attaching a screen capture of
>> this
>> (though I can't catch the error as it doesn't stay up).
>>
>> Thanks for any insights.
>> Sheila
>>

Hi,

Use Vista Start Menu program and you see all items at once -
http://www.vistastartmenu.com

>
> "Dave" <d...@beepbeep.com> wrote in message
>
> news:...
>
> >I tried moving my task bar to the top, and thestartmenudoesn't
> >overlap... you might try unlocking it, moving it to the side or bottom, and
> >back up to the top.... just to see if that changes it.
>
> > "Sheila Hoffman" <She...@hoffmanNOSPAMgraphics.com> wrote in message
> >news:#ww$...
> >> This is most annoying... I've started getting this error message telling
> >> me
> >> there are too many items instartmenuand to try a different resolution!
> >> For god's sake! Is this talking about the pinned items and/or the
> >> recently
> >> opened items or what? Surely not the items in the actualstartmenu.
> >> There's
> >> not that many there! I've only had the computer a few days. I'm not even
> >> done loading everything yet. I've organized the shortcuts in thestart
> >>menu
> >> into folders and subfolders. My video card is set to 1600 dpi and I'm
> >> using
> >> large fonts. I keep my taskbar on the top. I've noticed Vista doesn't
> >> really
> >> like that....notice how thestartmenuis slightly beneath the taskbar at
> >> the top. Also, the impact of the error message is that thestartmenuis
> >> no
> >> longer flush left but offset a bit. I'm attaching a screen capture of
> >> this
> >> (though I can't catch the error as it doesn't stay up).
>
> >> Thanks for any insights.
> >> Sheila

Cool... I'll check it out.

> Use Vista Start Menu program and you see all items at once -
> http://www.vistastartmenu.com